You don't necessarily need an academic degree to do a creative work. But rather, you need a problem in your experience of childhood.

The adverse effect of being a compassionate person is that very often you give mankind's cruelty the key to the cage wherein your dark self dwells. As a precaution, you need a supernatural power to restrain your dark self when that cage is opened and your dark self is given the invitation to come out.

You can't insulate yourself from tough times. But you can use tough times to overcome self-victimization.

To be able to increase self-understanding, solitude is your best friend.

At whatever point in life you're at; nothing is good or bad, and nothing is ultimately right or wrong. Some things are acceptable to the society or environment you find yourself in.. some are not. That gives you all the more reason to find your answers in life not in the minds of others, or your conscious mind. Instead strive to find what is proper or improper in your own unconscious or at least, your subconscious mind.

God-fearing?! Why should man fear God? Human beings were created in the image of God. God is love, man should be God-honoring instead.