Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

The reward for attention is always healing.

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.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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

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 .

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.