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One of the easiest ways to be...

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

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The daimonic refers to the po...

The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.

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The first thing necessary for...

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.

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Competitive individualism mil...

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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We must always base our commi...

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

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Our age is one of transition,...

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

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A myth is a way of making sen...

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

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The creative process must be ...

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

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A historical perspective can ...

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.

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Mark Tobey fills his canvases...

Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.

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The schizoid man is the natur...

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

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Now, I believe in life, and I...

Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.

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Purpose in the human being is...

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

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To say a person is a coward h...

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.

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Our powerful hunger for myth ...

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

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Those we call saints rebelled...

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

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Something is born, comes into...

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

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The authentic rebel knows tha...

The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.

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... what the artist or creati...

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

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Every act of genuine creativi...

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

Rollo May 220 quotes

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