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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

This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
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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Against Aleck Community Competitive Contemporary Experience Factor Important Individualism Militate
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Forget Have Irresponsible One Easiest Power Way
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Artist Chaos Create Form Genesis God Immerse Into Love Order Out Themselves
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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All Artist Ecraetive Life One People Some Struggle Succeeded Task Way
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Active Cure Heal Learn Myself Need Participate Process
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Anxiety Condition Essential Human
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Anything Effective Feel Live Most People Powerless
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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Arm Country Courage Enable Function Heart Just Leg Mean One Physical Pump Same Stem Word
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing
A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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Depend Essentially Fall Inner Look Love Men Now Return Seem Sense Somebody Sudden Today

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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