The Ultimate Error Is The Refusal To

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.

Whatever Sphere We May Be In, There Is A Profound Joy In The Realization That We Are Helping To Form The Structure Of The New World. This Is Creative Courage, However Minor Or Fortuitous Our Creations May Be.

What Is Courage? This Courage Will Not Be The Opposite Of Despair. We Shall Often Be Faced With Despair, As Indeed Every Sensitive Person Has Been During The Last Several Decades In This Country. Hence Kierkegaard And Nietzsche And Camus And Sartre Have Proclaimed That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Despair; It Is, Rather, The Capacity To Move Ahead In Spite Of Despair.

We Receive Love — From Our Children As Well As Others — Not In Proportion To Our Demands Or Sacrifices Or Needs, But Roughly In Proportion To Our Own Capacity To Love.

Our Powerful Hunger For Myth Is A Hunger For Community. The Person Without A Myth Is A Person Without A Home...to Be A Member Of One's Community Is To Share In Its Myths.