Classical Adlerian Quotes: Lydia Sicher on Creative Power

"Adler taught that humans, in contrast to animals, have creative power. The important difference is that animals have no awareness of their own mortality. Humans set goals and attempt to reach them knowing that their time is limited. People have the power to make choices, and this is the one thing that makes human beings really the masters of their destiny, if they will only take the helm. Humans have the power to make wrong choices and to make mistakes. If they have set themselves on a path which leads into a morass (like neurotic persons), there is still the possibility in their creative power to break through the net that they have made themselves. They might need outside help, but it is always possible to do. All people can do differently, they only have to think about it. "

"Only when we can use our creative power to fuse ourselves with something outside of ourselves can we experience knowingly or unknowingly this oneness with the outside world."  

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