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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Rollo May

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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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 acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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 not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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