So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Science values static patterns.