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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.

Rollo May

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak
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
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Communication Community Intimacy Mutual Read Understanding Valuing
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Care Come Good Life Physical Survival
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Dangwerous Know More
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Contemporary Culture Impoverishment Popular Profoundly Proof Strong Through
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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Courage Effect Inescapable Intimacy Know Outlet Relationship Require Risk
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
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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Authentically Conscious Distinguish Doing Feel Freedom Think Human Personal Quality Speak
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Courageous Creativity Encounter God Intense Neither Neurosis Product Simple Talent
So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Courage Fascimile Possible Psychologivcal Value Virtue
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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Assumption Define Meaning Region
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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Anything Effective Feel Live Most People Powerless
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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Heroism Identity Important Make Mold Reflect Sense
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
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Art Consciousness Creative Ecstasy Intensity Nobody Occvur Totally
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Capacity Development Freedom Man Old Ourselves Own Takem Hand
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Add Apathy Cowardice Long Run
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong
This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves
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
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
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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Capacity Constructive Creativity Must One Order Ope Solitude Use
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
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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Deep Feeling Hope Imprint Keeper Meaningful Memory Past Time Upon

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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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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