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.
ROLLO MAYOne does not become fully human painlessly.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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The 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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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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