Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

