Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will have betrayed yourself.

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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

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Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

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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.

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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.

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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 . . . ."

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