Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

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.

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