certainty

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Breathe.  Let go.  And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.