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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Consciousness
Dialectical
Emerges
Limitations
Limitation
Possibilities
Tension
Awareness
Possibility

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