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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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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.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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