The Insight Is Born With Anxiety, Guilt

By Whatever Name One Calls It, Genuine Creativity Is Characterized By An Intensity Of Awareness, A Heightened Consciousness.

It Is Infinitely Safer To Know That The Man At The Top Has His Doubts, As You And I Have Ours, Yet Has The Courage To Move Ahead In Spite Of These Doubts.

That Because Of This Interplay Of Conscious And Unconscious Factors In Guilt And The Impossibility Of Legalistic Blame, We Are Forced Into An Attitude Of Acceptance Of The Universal Human Situation And A Recognition Of The Participation Of Every One Of Us In Man's Inhumanity To Man.

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 Mechanism By Which The Individual Persuades Himself To Take Over The External Sanctions Because He Has No Fundamental Assurance That His Own Choices Have Any Sanction Of Their Own

Vanity And Narcissism — The Compulsive Need To Be Admired And Praised — Undermine One's Courage, For One Then Fights On Someone Else's Conviction Rather Than One's Own.