Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
ROLLO MAYThere 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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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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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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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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