The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will.....not where we will it.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.