There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.

Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.

Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self.

If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

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.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I'm one quantum leap closer to freedom.