All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.