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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Rollo May

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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Love Mena Negative Ourselves Positive Well
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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Against Being Culture Every Human Me Must Point Say Stand
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Deed Establish Esteem Largely Perform Self Society Those Try Violence
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Amazing Best Know Love Ourselves Thing Way
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Human Individual Responsibility Significance Suffer
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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Heroism Identity Important Make Mold Reflect Sense
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Age Come Love Only Require Understanding Wisdom
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Being Faster Fiercely Grasp Habit Human Ironic Lost More Old Our Way Research Statistic Technical
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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All Artist Ecraetive Life One People Some Struggle Succeeded Task Way
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Forget Have Irresponsible One Easiest Power Way
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Free People Purpose Pyschothraphy Set
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Among Courage Fidelity Love Personal Value Virtue
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Ability Choose Freedom Pause Real Response Stimulus
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
Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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Against Aleck Community Competitive Contemporary Experience Factor Important Individualism Militate
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Being Courage Make Necessary Possible
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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Adult Being Childhood Creatively Human Innocent Marry Merely Passion Youth
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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Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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Antagonistic Between Commitment Doubt Mean One Relationship
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Construct Depression Future Inability
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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Genius Important Invention Need Person Society Strength Supermen Themselves
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Absence Ahead Capacity Courage Despair Move Rather Spite
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Amazing Come Ear Guide Hear Hint Intuition Live May Peron Sensitive
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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Acorn Automatic Become Commitment Growth Mean Necessary Oak
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Against Capacity Confound Counterfeited Cover Element Fight However Injustice

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