Creativity: Revealing the Truth About Human Nature (eBook)

“It is highly important, indeed urgently so, that we consider the possibility that our traditional ideas concerning the innate nature of man may be wrong and damaging, for I am convinced that underlying much of man’s malfunctioning … is this unsound conception of human nature.”

Ashley Montagu

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“a biological a priori”

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“a boundless treasure of goodness … inherent in [us] all”

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“a call into the fullness of life”

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“a call to our deepest self to come forward”

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“a calling from life itself”

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“a cause for which you have great passion”

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“a cause in which one can believe and to which one

can be dedicated”

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“a cause you are committed to, a local service project that could use

your help … [where] your energies and ideas can make a

difference – in your life and your world”

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“a center out of which you act”

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“a central core of being human”

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Aristotle

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“a characteristic pattern of potentials each of us displays [sic]”

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“a child’s inborn nature”

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“a coherent purpose … a harmonious theme in the apparent chaos of experience”

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“a core longing in our soul”

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“a deep human urge – to explore, to create, to discover, to achieve, to change, to improve”

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“a deep, inner, compulsive – almost primal – drive … to leave an indelible imprint on the world”

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“a deeper aspect of ourselves, ordinarily dormant, asleep, unused”

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“a deeper call in our lives”

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“a deeper, more profound part of our beings”

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“a deeper purpose, one that involves being present with ourselves and, in so doing, bringing some aspect of the

world to life”

All of history supports the observation that the desire to create is a fundamental urge in humankind.

Willis Harman and John Hormann

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“a deeper sense of life purpose”

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“a defining image”

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“a definite aim and model for life”

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“a desire to put something back … to contribute”

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“a desire within the heart of every person [sic] to be a source oneself of the revelation we have received”

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“a difficult enough goal from which all other goals logically follow … [in the pursuit of which] the separate parts of a person’s life will fit together”

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“a dimension of existence beyond that experienced through the senses [sic]”

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“a divine dimension, a bit of God’s image in every one of us”

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“a driving force in each of our lives”

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“a fact of nature which cannot be abolished”

True happiness involves the full use of one’s powers and talents.

John W. Gardner

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“a flower blooming from life”

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“a fulfillment need that many are experiencing … a deeper sense of life purpose”

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“a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity”

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“a fully human, fully alive existence”

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“a fundamental human essence that, where uninhibited, has found expression in all societies and cultures at all times”

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“a gift from the gods which makes [you] unique”

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“a gnawing and unfaltering human hunger”

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“a goal that brings harmony to a person’s life”

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“a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly”

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“a grand purpose to life or for an individual soul”

Everyone is born a genius.

Society degeniuses them.

Buckminster Fuller

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“a great force in our life for good or evil, depending on what we have chosen”

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“a growing edge, the part of us that goes beyond what we believe to be possible”

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“a higher level of consciousness [that] guides [sic] our actions”

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“a higher level of humanity”

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“a human being doing what she or he was meant to do”

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“a hunger that will never be satisfied with any created thing”

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“a life filled with meaning and passion”

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“[a] life task devotion to [which] raises [one] above the pettiness and paltriness that necessarily devour meaningless lives”

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“a life task set by God”

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“a life [we] can feel good about”

Creative talent is a widely distributed gift … an ability that need not wane with age.

Alex F. Osborn

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“a magical ability to change the world [that] each of us has”

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“a man’s individual nature”

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“a man’s true nature”

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“a meaning we all have [sic] to fulfill”

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“a melting of our work into the great work of the universe”

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“[a message] that you have been chosen by the universe to receive”

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“a more spiritual and truly human way of living”

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“a more transcendent dimension of life”

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“a mysterious a sense of transcendence, of universal harmony [that]...