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.
ROLLO MAYEcstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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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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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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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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