The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness … we are diminished, and we forget that we are more than we know … .*
Madeleine L’Engle

And if you stopped doing all these things you’re doing for the money and the attention, what would be left? What would you be if you didn’t do these things?**
Derek Sivers

It may not be the thing you are being paid for,
Nor what is getting you noticed –
These may simply be camouflaging what
you really need to do if we are to
lose the feeling that something is
missing.

You may know, yet be putting it off,
Waiting for the perfect conditions that will
never arrive – more likely it is the present imperfect conditions that are
necessitous to your art.

Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect.^

*Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water;
**Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah or No;
^Seth Godin’s blog: The perfect conditions.