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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Anxiety Extent Mert Person Stronger Threat Value
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Among Courage Fidelity Love Personal Value Virtue
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
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
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Against Always Culture Down Every Human Being Leader Line One Point Stand World
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Capacity Development Freedom Man Old Ourselves Own Takem Hand
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
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Attain Courage Deciosn Decision From Day Multitude People Require Worth
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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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
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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Make Myth Sense Senseless Way World
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
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Change Courage Lack Nobis Totally
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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Block Clinical Development Experience Greatest Life Person Take Way

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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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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