An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.