when we commit, we’re moving from the Known to the Unknown.

For writers and artists, the ability to self-reinforce is more important than talent.

these new friends are your true spiritual companions. They too have a dream—the same dream you have. They too have left home to pursue it. Like you, they are on the Yellow Brick Road. They are your community. They will be your friends for life.

One of the laws of Resistance is that Resistance is always strongest at the finish.

Seat your identity not in the ego, but in the Self.

At some point the practice of our vocation moves from being a challenge that we must will ourselves into accepting and enacting to becoming simply . . . our life.

“It’s not habit. It’s your life.”

This is the job. There is no other job. This is the job.

This is the day. There is no other day. This is the day. In other words, I release every thought that smacks of, “Maybe we can do this some other time.” There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.