A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
ROLLO MAYCourage 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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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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