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

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.