In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.