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

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.