Are You Here To Be A Successful Author? 149prepared to stand in that space and arrive ready, it’s going to be shown to
you. You will find the way. You’ll be led on that path, and your job is to
just be open and watching like a hawk. Be exceedingly clear about what
you want and what you need, and allow the universe to be in you, for
you, through you, as you, and to guide you. Surrender to that. Trust and
act accordingly.
This universe will shape itself around your thoughts; that’s the
truth. Keep your thoughts clean; keep the weeds out of your garden.
Don’t give in to the naysayers. Don’t allow that, because they’ll give you
a hundred reasons why something shouldn’t work. So many of us are
born with gifts and deep desires, and if anything is tugging at you in that
way, it’s a signal and you’ve got to pay attention to it in earnest.
I tried to walk away from writing, especially rebel writing, but
it was just so hard to live with such a decision because the need inside
me to write was always burning. I was driven to do it, and particularly
to write about extraordinary thinking. A friend, Julian Lennon, has
talked about this and what it was like for him when he took a
sabbatical from his music for a few years. At the time he walked away
from it he was thinking, I’ll never go back to it; I’ll never do that
again. But, in the end, it just hounded him. It burned in his soul and he
had to return to it.
I suppose I just want people to know that if they have that deep
inner urge, that tug, that pull, that something inside that’s very strong,
the worst thing you can do is not do it. I’d love people to remember
that they were given the passion inside of them for a reason. It was to
use it. If you do have to take a break, don’t beat yourself up, but don’t
take too long. Hurry back!