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.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

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

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.