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.
ROLLO MAYBeauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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