[Artists] love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. |
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. |
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. |
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. |
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. |
Depression is the inability to construct a future |
Depression is the inability to construct a future |
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. |
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. |
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself |
Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . ." |
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way |
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. |
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. |
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. |