Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

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.

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 individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?