Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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.
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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.
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
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.
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.
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.
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.
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.
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