In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.