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Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and 'free-floating' anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.
Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.
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.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.