It’s essential to be dragged into your story when you draft it—to wallow in unrestrained wonder.  After it’s finished, the painful process of editing begins.  Seeing it with an objective eye you think, “How did this ever entrance me?  It’s barely understandable.”  And as you edit and edit and edit, you slowly see the original…

Set aside for a moment those dazzling pictures, those graceful strains of music, those luminous quotes.  Underneath all of them is something beyond words, beyond thought even.  And while we may hang our hopes for deliverance on wise sayings or works of art, it is that ineffable [presence-energy-indescribability] beneath them that will never fade in clarity.  …

Apply creativity in speaking better, in moving faster, in accomplishing more; creativity has made weapons, it has made shelter, it has made clothes, foods, works of horror and wonder—creativity is more than some fancy, uplifting buzzword.   Creativity—at its core—is the key that unlocks existence.

Upon first learning of spiritual principles, I wanted to create egoic walls and separations, to say “this is spiritual and that is not, avoid this/embrace that,” but now I see the error of my ways.  Knowing that I’m an integral part of a vast web of consciousness, I feel obliged to explore, to see transcendence in…

Logically, trying to wrestle off death is a monumental waste.  It naturally follows that if we all die, then we should learn to laugh at the absurdity of it, to flout social convention and crack the blackest jokes.   Not out of some twisted defiance, but out of honest recognition that we should enjoy the…

Personally, I believe the key to writing is being as brutally honest with myself as possible, and channeling that into my story.  While writing may be a world of make-believe and fantasticality, it’s only palatable if it’s flavored with truth.