Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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We 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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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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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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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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