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.

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

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.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.