Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

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

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.