"Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter."
- Rollo May
"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..."
"The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as “given” to a pe..."
"These poets and other creative persons are the ones who express being itself, he held. As I would put it, these are the ones who enlarge human consciousness. Their creativity is the most basic manifes..."
"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."
"Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) — one has a..."
"When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship."
"Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a p..."
"Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations."
"One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves."