Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.