Christopher John Miller > Quotes

“You don’t need another person, place, or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.” Maya Angelou”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“I found myself getting angry in the strangest situation. At the bank or drive through, the attendant might reply, “Have a blessed day,” and my shoulders would contract. Rather than accept these well wishes, my first reaction was one of indignation. How dare they enforce their belief system on me! How ridiculous of me. I was letting their word choice get in the way of the truth in their action. The truth of their activity was to wish me well. But I was allowing their specific word for a Greater Power block me from receiving this blessing. Their definition of God had hurt me, and I was twisting their gift into an insult. Instead of recognizing their truth, they wanted to wish me goodness.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“As I write this book to share my ideas, I continually strive for the best possible word choices, but sometimes find that words aren’t quite enough. As a passionate communicator, I will continue to shuffle, reorganize, and repattern my word choices in an attempt to communicate something that is clearly beyond words. While I may reach some people some of the time, I will never reach everyone all of the time.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Seeking Moments of Awe and recognizing them in our day is a necessary skill practiced by the Spiritual Artist.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“While creating a sacred space applies to our physical environment, it also involves the conscious area within ourselves that receives guidance from ____________. As Virginia protected the studio’s setting, you are required to protect the environment of your mind. Sacred energy includes love, appreciation, awe, forgiveness, compassion, and acceptance. When you engage in the creative process, you must maintain space for them in your mind. Likewise, you must guard against any negative thoughts like criticism, judgment, anger, and jealousy.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“In my newly acquired silence, I remember what sacred space means. It’s much more than a brightly lit room and high ceilings. Sacred space is a state of consciousness. When I talk about creating a space, I’m referring to the act of freely allowing for your possibilities; the liberty to let yourself explore and take risks in a safe atmosphere of non-judgment. This space is created by shifting your consciousness and thoughts. This sacred space opens room for new possibilities. There’s the space around you and the area inside of you.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Whether you’re painting, throwing pottery, raising children, or building a business, we’re all Spiritual Artists in the act of the creative process.
Our task in life is to express our unique “is-ness” through the creative process.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Focus on what‘s working within the context of that challenge. Don’t focus on the challenge. Focus on the opportunity. Learn to expand what is working in your life.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.” Rumi”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“People have referred to a Greater Power as God, Allah, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Mother Nature, the Trinity, the One, Source, and many more, but these words limit us by context. We try to force a power that is beyond language into our limited definition of it.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Many years ago, one of my life coaches gave me a metaphor. She compared life’s passage to that of peeling an onion. We continue to remove layer after layer of that onion, revealing new challenges and new realms. Our conscious beliefs reside in layers like those of an onion. As we continue to watch our thoughts and practice self-awareness, we’ll uncover new self-limiting beliefs. As we reveal each limiting belief, we grow as Spiritual Artists, and our creative results deepen.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Let’s revisit my conversation with Theater Director, Teacher, and Actor Terry Martin and the Meisner Technique. According to Terry, he encourages his students to seek a pivotal place when they are truly present in the moment and access their emotional impulses. He does this by describing emotions as E-motion. Energy in motion. Because they are constantly changing, emotions are powerful but momentary. By accessing these emotions, his actors find a way to tell a story in their unique way. He cautions that emotions only create a block if they are restrained. For example, my attempts to silence my emotions prevented me from accessing my mind and held me in a painful state. He teaches his students to understand the emotional journey by accepting their emotions.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Everyone is educated in separate ideologies and traditions. But if we step back and look at the situation with a universal perspective, we realize that most of our experiences and values are the same.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” George Bernard Shaw”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.

“Being an artist isn’t about proving yourself to others or demonstrating a hard-achieved skill; it’s about expressing you as you in pure essence.”
― Christopher John Miller, The Spiritual Artist: We are designed to create.