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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Rollo May

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
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Ability Choose Freedom Pause Real Response Stimulus
Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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Admire Compulsive Fight Narcissism Ned One Praise Underminem Courage Vanity
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
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
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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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
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
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
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
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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Always Being Dependent Dual Human Itself Reality Truth Upon
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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Appreciate Communication Daner Mass May Serious Something Technologically Value Wonder
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
All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Artist Brush Communicating Feeling Like Meaningful Paint Share Something Way World
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

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