Watch small children and see how seriously they take their play. In fact, play is how we first learn, and through it we find delicious joy in the unexpected. How delighted children are when their “play” leads to new openings and understanding.

Creative people never lose joy in their play.

Not that our creative work is always a giddy ride! It can be hard work and is often frustrating, but why do we do it if, ultimately, it doesn't bring us joy? Which is why, for example, creating in the white heat is so fantastic. We are immersed in the mystery — outer reality no longer holds us in its bounded grip

Katherine Anne Porter put is this way: “Perhaps in time I shall learn to live more deeply and consistently in that undistracted center of being where the will does not intrude, and the sense of time passing is lost, or has no power over the imagination.”