What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
ROLLO MAYPeople attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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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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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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