Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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

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.