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.
ROLLO MAYMany people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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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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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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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