Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYA 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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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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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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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