What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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