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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

Rollo May

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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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Achievement Automatically Bound Come Day E Ach Freedom Gain Single
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Contemporary Culture Impoverishment Popular Profoundly Proof Strong Through
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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Adult Being Childhood Creatively Human Innocent Marry Merely Passion Youth
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Conformity Courage Cowardice Opposite Society
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Against Being Culture Every Human Me Must Point Say Stand
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Act Against Arise Being Creative Human Limit Struggle
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Human Individual Responsibility Significance Suffer
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Deep Feeling Hope Imprint Keeper Meaningful Memory Past Time Upon
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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Depend Essentially Fall Inner Look Love Men Now Return Seem Sense Somebody Sudden Today
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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Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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History Jhuman Often Person Rebel Recall Saint Same
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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Being Bring Creativity Into Process Something
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

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