What if imagination and art are the fountainhead of human experience?

Imagination ... seems to be a principle in human life underlying even reason, for the rational functions, according to our definitions, can lead to understanding, can participate in the constituting of reality only as they are creative.

Imagination is the reaching out of the mind, the capacity to see dreams and visions, to consider diverse possibilities, to endure the tension in holding these possibilities to attention.

As imagination gives vitality to form, form keeps imagination from driving us into psychosis. This is the ultimate necessity of limits.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy or mild ecstasy that comes when you find the particular form required for your creation: … the experience of "This is the way things are meant to be." We participate for a moment in the myth of creation, and at the same time know more vividly our own limitations.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May

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