Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYWe 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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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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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