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

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.