Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

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

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North--meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.