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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Rollo May

All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Become Ethical Factory Mithilism Person Result Science Want
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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Argue Fortunately Good Longer Love Necessary Self
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
Courage is required not only in a person’s occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
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Courage Crucial Decision Freedom Hour Little Occasional Only Own Person Place REquired
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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Believe ContrAction Doubt Fully Greater Moment Presuppose Respect Same
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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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