Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

A working artist is a playing artist.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.