Sublime

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.

Whether you think you’re brilliant or you think you’re a loser, just make whatever you need to make and toss it out there.

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind).

The more lightly you can pass that time, the brighter your existence becomes.

I even have a welcoming speech prepared for fear, which I deliver right before embarking upon any new project or big adventure.

contrivance,

For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an

At the other end of the spectrum, Alma postulated, there was Divine Time—an incomprehensible eternity in which galaxies grew, and where God dwelled.