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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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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Many
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Persons
Guides
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Sensitive
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Ears

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