A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
ROLLO MAYThe 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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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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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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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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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.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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