The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

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.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

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

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.