-Use your words to bring people where you’ve been. Everyone has been on a spiritual journey. And we’re all looking for the same thing—a place of lasting peace.

-Every day is another day to share some of your deepest thoughts with the world.

-I often write to my former self. The person who is like I was. My job is to pass on to others what I’ve discovered. Most people won’t be interested, but some will. It’s for them.

-To be a successful writer you don’t need everyone in the world to know about you. You just need a small to moderate sized community of readers. Your impact on those reader with impact the people in their lives. As a result you’ll touch the lives of more people than you’ll ever realize.

-The opportunity to write for a living is an opportunity to be a leader and an influencer. More importantly it’s an opportunity to be a messenger of something sacred.

-In an age of bullshit, it’s rare to see people doing honest, heartfelt work. That’s especially true online. The internet is a portal to bullshitters paradise. If you want to standout as a writer online, be the opposite of the bullshitters. Be honest and sincere in everything you do and you will outclass most writers. Once writing becomes about money, instead of the writing itself, you’re no longer a writer, you’re a mere salesperson. When it comes to writing, money should always be an afterthought. If you adopt the mindset of being a “professional” writer, you’ll struggle to be real. You’ll struggle to go deep. You’ll write stuff for the mere sake of writing stuff and lose your self-expression.

-Don’t shy away from using phrases that your readers might not be familiar with. That’s part of what makes your writing real and unique. Give readers a glimpse into your mind. Don’t confuse them, but don’t pander either.

-Not everything has to be fully explained. Give readers some things to chew on. The idea is to open the door and let people look inside. You don’t need to give a detailed description of everything in the room.

-If your writing doesn’t challenge your readers, you’re probably holding back too much. We all need to be stretched.

-It’s not my job as a writer to tell people what they want to hear. I’m not trying to make everything easy. I want to help people breathe easier, but I also want to challenge existing beliefs. Including my own.

-Are you a writer or an entrepreneur? Because they’re not the same thing. Write what you would write if you never made a penny.

-You’ll be a better writer if you have a less active mind.

-Writing can be hard sometimes, because it requires you to sit in silence and solitude. To turn off the distractions. Which includes settling the monkeys in your mind. It requires you to face yourself. It requires you to get to another place within—a place that is sacred to you. A place that you fear others wouldn’t understand. When I’m there, it’s the best. It’s just not always easy to get there. There’s a mental block that takes time to get through. There’s always a great sense of peace and meaning in that place when I’m there. And when I’ve written what I was supposed to write, there’s a satisfying sense of accomplishment.

-Sometimes just writing something, pretty much anything, can help open the floodgates. Once you let a trickle through, often more will follow. What you want is for your pencil to assume a life of its own. It’s really your sub-conscious mind being awakened and letting out what it has been gathering and brewing since you last let it loose.

-Sometimes I don’t write because I tell myself that what I’m about to write is too obvious. That I need to wait for a more profound insight. But the reality is that there are many people, and sometimes just one, who needs to hear that trite thought that I had. Don’t write to impress, or to win over as many people as possible. Write to share something in the belief that someone will benefit from your expression.

-There’s always something to write about. Because the world is so interesting.

–More words don’t necessarily mean more insight. Wisdom can come in small packages.

-Be as specific as you can with as few words as possible.

-I would be happy to express myself more fully while using fewer words. That is the essence of my writing style.

-Continuous learning gives you more things to write about. You get to write about new topics and you can write about previous topics from a different angle.

-Write because you want to. Publish because you have something important to share.

-Don’t search for perfect words in your writing. Express your thoughts the way they want to be expressed in the moment. You can meditate on better word choices after the initial expression has already been recorded. Perfection isn’t the aim, expression is. We express ourselves for the purpose of personal therapy, self-learning, and to communicate a message to others. In writing, we don’t have to be as careful with our words as we do through spoken word, because in writing nothing gets published until we decide to publish it. In conversations, the words are already out there—it’s too late to edit them. Good writing starts with radical self-expression and is tidied up through the editing process.

-If you’re writing from the heart, don’t do too much editing. That’s part of the beauty and power of writing—self-expression.

-Writing time is self-learning time.

-Don’t interrupt a good flow state. Stay with it as long as you can.

-One of the tormenting things about being a writer is that you never feel like you’ve adequately expressed what you’re trying to express. And you never feel like you have enough time to write everything you want to write. The work is never done and it’s never good enough. Much of who we are (all of us, not just writers) and what we want to tell people will be taken to the grave with us.

-The insecurity that comes with publishing your thoughts publicly will never fully go away. You have to do it afraid.

-There’s always something else waiting to be written. Sit down and listen for it.

-Writing is an exercise in patience. You have to wait for the words to come to you. They don’t always come quickly.

-If you treat your writing like journaling, you don’t have to worry so much about it being perfect or even about being right all the time. Because it’s self-expression—it’s art. The main thing required is being bold enough to write it and even more so to publish it. It’s not the only way to write, but it has its place.

-Don’t take writing too seriously. It’s just an outlet for self-expression, not a pursuit of perfection.

-Writing doesn’t have to be pretty. It just has to be honest. It’s not about impressing people. It’s about expression.

-If you’re going to write, don’t make it all about you, make it about all of us.

-To better myself, and to better my readers—that’s my aim as a writer.