“In my experience with this type of creative discovery, everything depends upon the degree to which I can perceive what I do with “unconditional positive regard.” When the teachers in my studio group began to have a positive feeling for their free expressions with paint, everything began to change. The simplest gestures, color combinations, and repetitious patterns of lines and shapes became fascinating. As with meditation, any object intensely, contemplated can be an opening to reverie. Everything depends upon the quality of attention that we can apply to our perceptions. The humblest expressions can be sources of insight and wonder.” -Shaun McNiff, from his book Trust the Process, An Artis's Guide to Letting Go