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

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

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.