Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAYIn order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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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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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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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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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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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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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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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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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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