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" A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. "
Rollo May
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" 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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" Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' "
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" Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. "
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" If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny. "
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" Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. "
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" The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying. "
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" Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth. "
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" Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. "
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" Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. "
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" Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. "
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" Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities. "
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" Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. "
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" I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities. "
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" The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time. "
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" Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. "
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" Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. "
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" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "
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" It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. "
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" 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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" 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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" Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. "
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" Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers. "
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" 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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