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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
Wisdom
Sympathy
Understanding
Empathy
Community
Mutual
Inspirational
Appreciation
Work
Dialogue
Life
Leads
Communication
Valuing
Compassion
Intimacy

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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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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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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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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
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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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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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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.
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Reason works better when emotions are present the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
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Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
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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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