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.
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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