One does not become fully human painlessly.
ROLLO MAYIf 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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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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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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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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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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