Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYWhen I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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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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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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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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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 ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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