We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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