This Personal Freedom To Think And Feel

... What The Artist Or Creative Scientist Feels Is Not Anxiety Or Fear; It Is Joy. I Use The Word In Contrast To Happiness Or Pleasure. The Artist, At The Moment Of Creating, Does Not Experience Gratification Or Satisfaction... Rather, It Is Joy, Joy Defined As The Emotion That Goes With Heightened Consciousness, The Mood That Accompanies The Experience Of Actualizing One's Own Potentialities.

Therapy Isn't Curing Somebody Of Something; It Is A Means Of Helping A Person Explore Himself, His Life, His Consciousness. My Purpose As A Therapist Is To Find Out What It Means To Be Human. Every Human Being Must Have A Point At Which He Stands Against The Culture, Where He Says, "this Is Me And The World Be Damned!" Leaders Have Always Been The Ones To Stand Against The Society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, All The Way Down The Line.

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.

Symbols Are Specific Acts Or Figures, While Myths Develop And Elaborate These Symbols Into A Story Which Contains Characters And Several Episodes. The Myth Is Thus More Inclusive. But Both Symbol And Myth Have The Same Function Psychologically; They Are Man's Way Of Expressing The Quintessence Of His Experience - His Way Of Seeing His Life, His Self-image And His Relations To The World Of His Fellow Men And Of Nature - In A Total Figure Which At The Same Moment Carries The Vital Meaning Of This Experience.

To Say A Person Is A Coward Has No More Meaning Than To Say He Is Lazy: It Simply Tells Us That Some Vital Potentiality Is Unrealized Or Blocked.