"In order to find our creativity - or, for that matter, our spirituality - we must begin with where we are. The Great Creator meets us exactly where we are standing - in "the Now" - but sometimes we do not know where that is. We may have moved through our lives unconsciously for a while, perhaps for a great while, and so we must find and take up a tool that tells us where we are and how we actually feel about that. This is the beginning of honesty, and honesty is the first step toward greater creativity."
Julia Cameron, Finding Water - The Art of Perserverance
(Julia Cameron wrote the book "The Artists Way" and here she is referring to morning pages - a practice of writing long hand 3 pages every day when you first wake up. In Finding Water she lays out the benefits and reasons for doing this. I highly recommend both the book and the practice of doing morning pages.)
