The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
ROLLO MAYFreedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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