In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.