Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it’s a terrible master—because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward. And
You're not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words, it also doesn't have to be important. For example, whenever anyone tells me t...
You want to write a book? Make a song? Direct a movie? Decorate pottery? Learn a dance? Explore a new land? You want to draw a penis on your wall? Do it. Who cares? It’s your birthright as a human bei...
You need a droughtbreaker, baby. Gotta go find yo'self a rainmaker.
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.
You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump. I say: 'Attraversiamo.'Let's cr...
You don't like it? asked Luca, who loves this stuff.I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, I said.He could have.No, he couldn't have, Luca. Gandhi was a vegetarian.But vegetarians CAN eat...
You didn’t show up ready enough, or fast enough, or openly enough for the idea to take hold within you and complete itself. Therefore, the idea went hunting for a new partner, and somebody else got to...
You can resist the seductions of grandiosity, blame, and shame. You can support other people in their creative efforts, acknowledging the truth that there’s plenty of room for everyone. You can measur...
You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.)
You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, reg...
You are worthy, dear on, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, rega...
You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you’ve given up. Every
Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you
Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.
With death, all suffering would end. Doubt would end. Shame and guilt would end. All her questions would end. Memory—most mercifully of all—would end. She could quietly excuse herself from life.
Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
Which left me with nothing but a dazzled heart and the sense that I live in a most remarkable world, thick with mysteries.
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.
When we speak today, then, about holy wedded matrimony, or the sanctity of marriage, we would do well to remember that, for approximately ten centuries, Christianity itself did not see marriage as bei...