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

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

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

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own