We have to love our own complexities and contradictions, encouraging an interior marriage and eroticism of the soul.

Creativity is not just about making fascinating inventions or great works of art. It has to do with shaping your life and cultivating your very soul.

If you can stop fighting your history and find workable ways of staying connected to it, you might be free to respond to new opportunities. But if you’re busy struggling with the past, you won’t be available to the present.

You use words every day. You can find the vital words that jar you into awareness. The way you talk to a friend could be your art.

Over time, you may tell it more effectively, and its sheer beauty will help you and connect you to the people in your life. You will find unexpected pleasure in the aesthetics of your thoughts and words, and that, too, will keep you going deeper, looking for further insights and language.