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Courage Is The Capacity To Meet The Anxiety Which Arises As One Achieves Freedom. It Is The Willingness To Differentiate, To Move From The Protecting Realms Of Parental Dependence To New Levels Of Freedom And Integration.

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, Sensitivity, And Defenselessness For The Gift Of 'divine Madness,' To Borrow The Term Used By The Classical Greeks.

Intimacy Requires Courage Because Risk Is Inescapable.

Recall How Often In Human History The Saint And The Rebel Have Be The Same Person. (p. 35)

The Creative Process Must Be Explored... As The Expression Of The Normal People In The Act Of Actualizing Themselves.