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.
ROLLO MAYHate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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When 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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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