Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
ROLLO MAYThe 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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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his 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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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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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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