A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands

When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

I think that evolution has had a hand in selecting people who had a sense of doing something beyond themselves.