A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
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.
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through “reminiscence,” that is by “remembering,” by intuitively searching into our own experience.
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.
All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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.
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.