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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

Rollo May

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
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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Answer Between Change Energy Field Human Met Passion Reach Relationship
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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Habit Human Being Ironic Lost Way
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Beauty Experience Give Joy Peace Sense Simultaneously
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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Arm Country Courage Enable Function Heart Just Leg Mean One Physical Pump Same Stem Word
One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Act Against Arise Being Creative Human Limit Struggle
The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Always Between Buffer Danger Exist Nature Our Service Technology
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Citizen Courage Enable Find Hero Ideal Necessary Order Own Society Wisdom
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
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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Being Bring Creativity Into Process Something
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Dangwerous Know More
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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All Artist Ecraetive Life One People Some Struggle Succeeded Task Way
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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Being Betray Express Idea Listen Original Own

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