effortlessness,

when the rest of the world seems to be engaged in the nine-to-five assembly-line world experience.

He is only aware of those moments when creative activity surges into his conscious awareness, and by then much of the “work” has already been done.

You have been living in an industrialized, scientific society, so that the benefits and the great disadvantages of the rational approach appear everywhere in the social and political world. Artists of any kind find such an approach the least friendly, for it directly contradicts the vast thrust of man’s creativity in several important areas.

It became more important, then, for the child to conform to the culture rather than to follow its own individual natural leanings.

the point of power is where flesh and matter meet with spirit.

As I have mentioned before, science’s determination to be objective almost immediately brought about a certain artificial shrinking of psychological reality. What could not be proven in the laboratory was presumed not to exist at all.

You are given far more knowledge than you realize when you are born,

after dinner also means that he is learning more about his own natural rhythms, for he does feel accelerated at that time,