Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
ROLLO MAYCreativity 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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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