Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.