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

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

A working artist is a playing artist.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.