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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.

Rollo May

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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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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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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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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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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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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