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Memory depends mainly upon my...

Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.

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A myth is a way of making sen...

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Rollo May 220 quotes

Social acceptance, 'being lik...

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

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Courage is not the absence of...

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Rollo May 220 quotes

Psychoanalysis - and any good...

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

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Creativity arises out of the ...

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

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To love means to open ourselv...

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

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Intimacy requires courage bec...

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

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The acorn becomes an oak by m...

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

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Creativity is the process of ...

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

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Ecstasy is the accurate term ...

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

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Our particular problem in Ame...

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

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Joy, rather than happiness, i...

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

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We are anxious because we do ...

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

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The problems of a period are ...

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

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Creativity is not merely the ...

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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The compelling drive to get a...

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

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Many modern people have gone ...

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

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Myths give us our sense of pe...

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

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In the utopian aim of removin...

In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.

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