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Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory me...more

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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all ...more

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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as...more

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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

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Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of...more

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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defe...more

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It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.