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….

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..

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways o….

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flare….

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative….

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell..

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing..

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery ha….

The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are e….

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of ….

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 t….

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

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

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge..

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensit….

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth a….

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others..

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them..

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself..

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning..

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves..