Forge in the smithy of your soul.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Creativity is a yearning for immortality