When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

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.

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

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

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