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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Rollo May

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
One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
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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Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Age Capacity Conformity Conviction Courage Hallmark Obstinately One Our Own Stand
A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Between Consciously Dynamic Hand Insight One Other Person Perspective Some Struggle Think
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Deep Feeling Hope Imprint Keeper Meaningful Memory Past Time Upon
Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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Distance Feel Healthy Humor Look Perspective Problem Self Stand Way
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Love Mena Negative Ourselves Positive Well
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Answer Between Change Energy Field Human Met Passion Reach Relationship
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Care Come Good Life Physical Survival
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
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
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Amazing Best Know Love Ourselves Thing Way
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Ability Choose Freedom Pause Real Response Stimulus
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

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