Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

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