Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise...As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. - Julia Cameron

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

"If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right"."

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.