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The happy and unusual satisfaction which the creative worker of any kind--and especially the artist or writer--feels when he has become deeply immersed for hours in a particular piece of work is a remote ripple of the bliss in which the second self is always itself immersed and to which his prolonged concentration brought him nearer. Again and again through this concentration he stumbles against and unwittingly opens a door in his mind which gives access to the ante-court of the Overself. In the creative experience he begins to find fulfilment but in the spiritual he completes it.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 2 : Creativity, Genius > # 78