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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Rollo May

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
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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Assumption Define Meaning Region
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Art Consciousness Creative Ecstasy Intensity Nobody Occvur Totally
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Deed Establish Esteem Largely Perform Self Society Those Try Violence
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
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 Crucial Decision Freedom Hour Little Occasional Only Own Person Place REquired
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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Arm Country Courage Enable Function Heart Just Leg Mean One Physical Pump Same Stem Word
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Confuse Dependence Fact Generally Love Point
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
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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Heroism Identity Important Make Mold Reflect Sense
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Become Ethical Factory Mithilism Person Result Science Want
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Dangwerous Know More
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Against Being Culture Every Human Me Must Point Say Stand
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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Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
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

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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