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

Rollo May

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Human Individual Responsibility Significance Suffer
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
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
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
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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Believe ContrAction Doubt Fully Greater Moment Presuppose Respect Same
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Become Ethical Factory Mithilism Person Result Science Want
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
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
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
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Deed Establish Esteem Largely Perform Self Society Those Try Violence
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
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
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Dangwerous Know More
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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Attitude Behavior Every Mature Mistaken Moment Nonegocentric Peron Suffer Way
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
Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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Distance Feel Healthy Humor Look Perspective Problem Self Stand Way
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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History Jhuman Often Person Rebel Recall Saint Same
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
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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Anxiety Condition Essential Human
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
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
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul
Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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Against Aleck Community Competitive Contemporary Experience Factor Important Individualism Militate
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
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

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