The air is full of tunes. A piece of rock is full of statues. The earth is full of visions. The world is full of stories. As an artist, you trust that. You trust that that is so. You know that whatever your experience, it will give you the material, the ‘ideas’ for your work… But there’s no such thing as pure invention. It all starts with experience. Invention is recombination. We can work only with what we have.

-Ursula K. LeGuin

If you don’t choose, the world chooses for you. Not choosing is a choice. Each choice lives for a certain amount of time and then dies, becomes something new, makes possible other choices. Take care not to rush or delay. Making choices is important, but the making is more like “letting.” Notice where you accelerate, notice where you get stuck. Practice making choices and start again.

Whether the injuries be to your art, words, lifestyles, thoughts, or ideas, and if you have knitted yourself up into a many-sleeved sweater, cut through the tangle now and get on with it. Beyond desire and wishing, beyond the carefully reasoned methods we love to talk and scheme over, there is a simple door waiting for us to walk through. On the other side are new feet. Go there. Crawl there if need be. Stop talking and obsessing. Just do it.

-Clarissa Pinkola Estes