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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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