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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Communication
Valuing
Compassion
Intimacy
Wisdom
Sympathy
Understanding
Empathy
Community
Mutual
Inspirational
Appreciation
Work
Dialogue
Life
Leads

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We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
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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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Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.
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Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
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It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
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Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
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The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.
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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
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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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We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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