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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Rollo May

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
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Change Courage Lack Nobis Totally
Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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Admire Compulsive Fight Narcissism Ned One Praise Underminem Courage Vanity
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
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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Always Between Buffer Danger Exist Nature Our Service Technology
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
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Alone Fear Find Many Oneself People Suffer
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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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
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
The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Courageous Creativity Encounter God Intense Neither Neurosis Product Simple Talent
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
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
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing

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