I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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

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.