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“Most of us have been raised to live our lives focused on seeking approval from some outer influence, like a parent, teacher, or peers, rather than to trust and connect with our True Self, our own soft, still voice within.”

“Creative seeker finding seeker—others who know the joy and the pain, the delight, and the struggle, and who are so busy diving deep for their own threads that they have no desire to keep us from finding ours—changes lives.”

“The key is having respect for resistance when it comes up for us, being kind to ourselves, taking breaks, and trusting our instincts about our own pace, and what is in our best interest.”

“When in doubt, listen to your body. When something is most helpful to us on our own individual journeys, our bodies often relax. We might even feel something shift, as if we’ve become lighter.”

“In those rare moments in between all the busyness of our lives when we let our guard down and forget to block the dam, when we accidentally grab the torn envelope to jot down what we’ve heard (half wondering if we’ve gone mad), something leaps. Personally, I think it’s our heart, leaping for joy like when a loved one returns home after being away for too long.”

“It is amidst those fragments that leap in and out of our lives when we are busy with more important things, like making sure everything is perfect, buttering up to try to win their approval, and trying to be who we think we are supposed to be, that pure gold arrives, frequently disguised as an intruder, and changes everything.”

“No matter how it happens, as our creative thread evolves, something new begins to be released on its own into the world. The very fact that we, as its guardians, have brought it out into the light changes our history and our own personal perceptions of what is possible for us and our lives.”