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

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

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

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one