The Creative Act Arises Out Of The

Human Freedom Involves Our Capacity To Pause Between The Stimulus And Response And, In That Pause, To Choose The One Response Toward Which We Wish To Throw Our Weight. The Capacity To Create Ourselves, Based Upon This Freedom, Is Inseparable From Consciousness Or Self-awareness. (p. 100)

The Relationship Between Commitment And Doubt Is By No Means An Antagonistic One. Commitment Is Healthiest When It Is Not Without Doubt But In Spite Of Doubt.

Creativity Is A Yearning For Immortality

Receptivity Requires A Nimbleness, A Fine-honed Sensitivity In Order To Let One's Self Be The Vehicle Of Whatever Vision May Emerge.

By Whatever Name One Calls It, Genuine Creativity Is Characterized By An Intensity Of Awareness, A Heightened Consciousness.