Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Few really ask. To really ask is to open the door to a whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion. We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. The truth, which is indestructible, has a way of accumulating against pride and arrogance, and then sweeping them from its path. It does not exist in nature.