Think of it as an exercise in open-mindedness. Just think, “Okay, Great Creator, whatever that is,” and keep reading. Allow yourself to experiment with the idea there might be a Great Creator and you might get some kind of use from it in freeing your own creativity.

Most of the time, when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way.

Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way.

Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.

We want to be great—immediately great—but that is not how recovery works. It is an awkward, tentative, even embarrassing process.

For all shadow artists, life may be a discontented experience, filled with a sense of missed purpose and unfulfilled promise. They want to write. They want to paint. They want to act, make music, dance … but they are afraid to take themselves seriously.

Showering, swimming, scrubbing, shaving, steering a car—so many s- like-yes words!—all of these are regular, repetitive activities that may tip us over from our logic brain into our more creative artist brain.

In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty.

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch.