What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
ROLLO MAYThe purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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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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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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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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