All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
ROLLO MAYThe one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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