This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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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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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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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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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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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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