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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.

Rollo May

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Act Against Arise Being Creative Human Limit Struggle
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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Artist Chaos Create Form Genesis God Immerse Into Love Order Out Themselves
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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Confer Hand Possibility Power Responsibility Something
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
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
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
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Against Around Defence Delight Good Tightly Truth Well Wound
Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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Distance Feel Healthy Humor Look Perspective Problem Self Stand Way
One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Become Does Human Not One Painlessly
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Anxiety Conflict Constructive Going Long Ourselves Remind Signify So Solution Well
There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Answer Between Change Energy Field Human Met Passion Reach Relationship
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
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Against Always Culture Down Every Human Being Leader Line One Point Stand World
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Accompany Emotion Fulfilling Goal Happiness Joy Life Nation Rather
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Courage Inescapable Intimacy Require Risk
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Fire Smithy Soul

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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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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