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

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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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Creativity is a yearning for immortality
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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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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.
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All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Love is generally confused with dependence but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
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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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Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
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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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There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.
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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
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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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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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