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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Rollo May

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
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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Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Anxiety Condition Essential Human
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Anything Effective Feel Live Most People Powerless
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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Attitude Behavior Every Mature Mistaken Moment Nonegocentric Peron Suffer Way
People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Become Change Dangerous People Seat Too Way
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Against Always Culture Down Every Human Being Leader Line One Point Stand World
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
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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Block Clinical Development Experience Greatest Life Person Take Way
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Capacity Constructive Creativity Must One Order Ope Solitude Use
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Error Evil Face Look Refusal Ultimate

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