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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.

Rollo May

All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Artist Brush Communicating Feeling Like Meaningful Paint Share Something Way World
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Alone Fear Find Many Oneself People Suffer
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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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Among Courage Fidelity Love Personal Value Virtue
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Courageous Creativity Encounter God Intense Neither Neurosis Product Simple Talent
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Change Courage Lack Nobis Totally
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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Always Being Dependent Dual Human Itself Reality Truth Upon
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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Against Always Culture Down Every Human Being Leader Line One Point Stand World
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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Always Between Buffer Danger Exist Nature Our Service Technology
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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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing
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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Courage Crucial Decision Freedom Hour Little Occasional Only Own Person Place REquired
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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Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
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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Curing Explore Help Himself Mean Person Somebody Something Therapy

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