Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Forge in the smithy of your soul.

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.

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

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

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)