Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

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

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.