When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
ROLLO MAYIntimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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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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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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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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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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