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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
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Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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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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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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