Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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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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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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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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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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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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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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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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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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