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

It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.