The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

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.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

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.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.