When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
ROLLO MAYIt is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
More Rollo May Quotes
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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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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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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