“The creative process must be explored not as the product of sickness, but as representing the highest degree of emotional health, as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.”

—  Rollo May

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 40

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