When you lose touch with inner stillness…

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.”  — Eckhart Tolle

Luring the Muse

  “Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.”    — Jill Badonsky,  The Nine Modern Day Muses: 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence