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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.

Rollo May

The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
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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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
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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Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Ability Choose Freedom Pause Real Response Stimulus
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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Best Center Contribution Fellow Men Find Long Makem Our Ourselves Run Strength
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Love Mena Negative Ourselves Positive Well
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
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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Alone Fear Find Many Oneself People Suffer
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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Arise Out Power Powerlessness Superfully Violence
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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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
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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Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt Mean One Relationship
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something

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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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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