Purpose Provides Activation Energy For Living.

The Solution Is To Gradually Become Free Of Societal Rewards And Learn How To Substitute For Them Rewards That Are Under One's Own Powers. This Is Not To Say That We Should Abandon Every Goal Endorsed By Society; Rather, It Means That, In Addition To Or Instead Of The Goals Others Use To Bribe Us With, We Develop A Set Of Our Own.

For Original Ideas To Come About, You Have To Let Them Percolate Under The Level Of Consciousness In A Place Where We Have No Way To Make Them Obey Our Own Desires Or Our Own Direction. Their Random Combinations Are Driven By Forces We Don't Know About.

Many Business Leaders Today View Their Jobs As Entailing Responsibility For The Welfare Of The Wider Community. These Individuals Do Not Define Themselves As Profit-making Machines Whose Only Reason For Existing Is To Satisfy Escalating Expectation For Immediate Gain.

When We Are Involved In [creativity], We Feel That We Are Living More Fully Than During The Rest Of Life.

Pleasure Is An Important Component Of The Quality Of Life, But By Itself It Does Not Bring Happiness. Pleasure Helps To Maintain Order, But By Itself Cannot Create A New Order In Consciousness.