Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAYOne central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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