Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

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.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.