With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

Some people love to mentally bully others into feeling inferior. Sadly, they often succeed in doing so because a lot of people aren't in the habit of defining their true self-worth.

This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen

O month when they who love must love and wed.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.