I was always amazed with the way that phenomena could be brought into being. Even when I was part of the act of creation – the creation was still some kind of miracle. There was no God – but every creative human being—every artist—was some kind of god. Creativity was a natural phenomenon that pulsed in us all – and our rôle as beings was to allow that to surface from the primal ocean of existence.
p173, Goodbye Forever: miscellaneous memoirs of an English Lama, Volume One Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books Worldwide, 2020, ISBN 978-1-898185-51-2