As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.