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"Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the 'divine madness, to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non - being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean."
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"Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!"

"The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love, otherwise it will become a desert."

"Tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?"

"Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?"

"The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world."

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"The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense."

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"Humor is the healthy way of feeling 'distance' between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."


"When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship."


"Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers."


"By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death."


"In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom."


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


"Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead."


"Everyone belongs to a society, whether he wishes it or not, whether he chooses it or not, whether he contributes constructively to its development or does the reverse. Community, on the contrary, implies one's relating one's self to others affirmatively and responsibly. Community in the economic sense implies an emphasis on the social values and functions of work. Community in the psychological sense involves the individual's relating himself to others in love as well as creativity."
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