Absorption Quote by Rollo May

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

— Maxwell Maltz

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

— Arthur Erickson

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner…

— John Cleese

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

— Jeff Bridges

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

— Madeleine L'Engle

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between…

— John Hersey

Your memory and your senses will be nourishment for your creativity.

— Arthur Rimbaud

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware...So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then…

— Anonymous

Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam,…

— Nathaniel Branden

“I would argue that taking time to experience the flip side of connected, intentional activity—to disengage from the stream and truly be present in…

— Jocelyn K. Glei