Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
ROLLO MAYThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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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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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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