We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.