If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Adults under threat feel like children.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.