Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.