But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.