"Creative people consciously confront anxiety, because they realize that it opens them to encounter the mysterious gap between what is known and unknown and to receive the revelations that emerge."

**  Linda Schierse Leonard, Ph.D.--author, The Call to Create - Celebrating Acts of Imagination
 

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"It has been said, and truly I think, that suffering is the first grace.  In a special sense, suffering is almost a time of rejoicing, for it marks the birth of creative insight."

**  Ken Wilbur, No Boundary Eastern & Western Approaches to Personal Growth

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"I dream my painting, then I paint my dream."

**  Vincent Van Gogh

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"The greater danger
for most of us
is not that our aim is
too high
and we miss it,
but that it is
too low
and we reach it"

**  Michaelangelo (1475-1564)

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...to Eastern Philosophy