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Courage is always rewarded.
That's an old saying I just made up.
Running away will never make you free.
Heaven help the man who fights his fear.
In every moment there is a reason to carry on.
I must let go of my need for the world to love me.
Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.
Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.
I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.
It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.
It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.
It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.
I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.
I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.
No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.
I had to beat the bags, big time, I had to get out into the den and start screaming and move it through my body.
The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.
Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.
My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.
In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.
To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.
When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.
There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.
I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.
Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.
Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based?
I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar
In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.