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

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

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.

In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)