If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
No one can separate themselves from one’s social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before – which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly.
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
I became a psychotherapist because that’s where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.