When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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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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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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 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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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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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