Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

Never forget that all you have is all you need.

Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.