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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Rollo May

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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Arise Out Power Powerlessness Superfully Violence
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Error Evil Face Look Refusal Ultimate
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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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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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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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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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
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
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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