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

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.