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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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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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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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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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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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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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