"Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act."
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"Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible."
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"Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety."
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"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)"
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"Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom."
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"Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience."
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"Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros."
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"Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly"
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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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"A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat."
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"Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective."
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"This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human."
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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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"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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"By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness."
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"No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community."
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"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."
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"By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death."
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"Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age."
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