The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

Agnes Martin

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If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

Finding a moment to sit and just do nothing can be very healing, transforming, and nourishing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

Mingyur Rinpoche

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