- Trust your creative impulses.
- Accept your curiosity’s invitation with the reply, Okay, I’ll try this.
- Hold wonder at your core, not at arm’s length.
- Trust that being your self looks like a patchwork quilt. Some patches are praised by many, some are known only to you, some you have not yet discovered, and some may never be appreciated or understood – but all are necessary for a bountiful existence. They hold you together.
- Refrain from focusing only on certain pieces (the visible, successful ones or the more tattered ones). This only confuses you. Diminishes you.
- Wrap yourself in this truth: curiosity and wonder are your sacred obligations for nurturing your creativity, for nurturing your self.
- Flourishing can begin with the smallest, most reluctant yes.
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