When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

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

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.