Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

I have it, you have it, we all have it. My saving grace is this, though: I know that I am not only an ego; I am also a soul. And I know that my soul doesn’t care a whit about reward or failure.

So please calm down now and get back to work, okay? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.

Don’t let go of your courage the moment things stop being easy or rewarding.

An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call “a hungry ghost”—forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed.

Curiosity is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end.

But in that moment, if you can pause and identify even one tiny speck of interest in something, then curiosity will ask you to turn your head a quarter of an inch and look at the thing a wee bit closer. Do it. It’s a clue.

That’s how a trickster gets the job done. Lightly, lightly. Ever lightly.

I believe that curiosity is the secret. Curiosity is the truth and the way of creative living.

By setting a trickster trap for her own storytelling, Brené figured out how to catch her own tiger by the tail.