Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.

Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as. It chose you.

The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.

Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

I'm way too focused to let anything stop me.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.