All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

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.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

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.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.