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

Rollo May

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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 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.
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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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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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