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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.

Rollo May

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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Anxiety Condition Essential Human
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Apathy Hate Love Opposite
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.
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Anything Effective Feel Live Most People Powerless
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Central Fulfill Life Need One Own Potential
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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Assumption Define Meaning Region
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Dangwerous Know More
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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Being Bring Creativity Into Process Something
Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Curing Explore Help Himself Mean Person Somebody Something Therapy
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Day Decision Dignity Make Multitude People Worth
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
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Age Capacity Conformity Conviction Courage Hallmark Obstinately One Our Own Stand
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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Courage Effect Inescapable Intimacy Know Outlet Relationship Require Risk
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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Being Brief Essence Exist Human Moment Planet Spinning
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
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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Achieve Anxiety Capacity Courage Freedom Meet Write
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Arise Between Creativity Limitation Spontaneously Tension

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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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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