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

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.