If you proceed too quickly, behaving as if you’re in Flow without actually being in it, you will know only the pain of resistance and forced action.
Read MoreWho we actually are is more than our words and deeds, and certainly more than whatever career we’ve chosen.
Read MoreI wanted my problems, my doubts and fears, to go away completely and forever. If a problem could return, it wasn’t solved.
Read MoreYou did not know until meeting your friend that your life was nothing but problems.
Read MoreA single, surprising word can change a story’s whole direction.
Read MoreWhen I find that interesting angle on a moment I’ve lived, something wakes up in me.
Read MoreThere’s something about a cat’s choice that feels like the unquestionable desires of nature.
Read MoreYou never know when you’ll turn some corner in your mind and find yourself in creative a dead end, face to face with the shadow.
Read MoreI imagined adventures he hadn’t taken, enemies he hadn’t faced.
Read MoreWherever I am is where I must need and want to be, whether I understand it or not.
Read MoreDoubt is a resilient and slippery worm. Open the door to your mind a crack, and it will slide in.
Read MoreThe arrows were all as harmless and transparent as thoughts.
Read MoreThere is nothing in the world harder than doubting yourself.
Read MoreThe only inspiration I can find in Douglas’s story – or in anyone’s, for that matter – is if I understand that he drew from the same well of genius and inspiration from which anyone and everyone can draw.
Read MoreI think all the questions around writing and money really come down to this: Can I make a living doing something I would happily do for free?
Read MoreTo be allowed in to this party, I can’t complain about it or want it to be different; I have to just accept it, accept all of it, including that part of it called Me.
Read MorePithiness by itself is not deceit, though it must by its nature leave a certain amount unsaid.
Read MoreI was someone who had not yet given himself permission to dive fully into this subject, and that resistance, that self-rejection, was becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
Read MoreThe fullness of our stories is found in the telling.
Read MoreWhy wasn’t anybody in that room happy?
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