Surprise your doubts with action.
The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.
If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?
Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.
Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.
The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.