There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
ROLLO MAYThe 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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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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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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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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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