Creativity is a spiritual issue.

It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

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

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.