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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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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
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Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
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Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
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We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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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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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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