October 10

Competition is another spiritual drug, and lies at the root of much creative blockage. When we focus on competition we poison our own well, impede our own progress. When we are ogling the accomplishments of others, we take our eye away from our own through line. We ask ourselves the wrong questions, and those wrong questions give us the wrong answers. As artists, we must go within. We must attend to what it is our inner guidance is nudging us toward. As artists, we cannot afford to think about who is getting ahead of us and how they don’t deserve it. The desire to be better than can choke off the simple desire to be. As artists we cannot afford this thinking.