In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

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

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.