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.
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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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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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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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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.
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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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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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