The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAYPeople only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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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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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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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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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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