One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
ROLLO MAYCommunication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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 to day.
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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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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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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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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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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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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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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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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