The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.