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

It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

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