~ Nietzsche, 1873/1962, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pp. ~ Lu Xun (2000), Letters Between Two, “Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Tillich “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable w/ yourself.” ~ Mark Twain Existential therapy is an enquiry into meaning and any enquiry that is “All great reformers, visionaries, or missionaries have a meaning mind-set rather than a happiness mindset…” ~ Albert Camus, 1955, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p. 124, “It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.” Frankl suggested that when neuroses arise from an individual’s inability to find meaning in their life, what they need is logotherapy, not psychotherapy. Whatever the problem raised for him, the setbacks that he will have to assume, and the difficulties with which he will have to struggle, he must reject oppression at any cost.” 2) p. 159, “We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man’s condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.” They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.” ~ Frantz Fannon, Black Skin, White Masks, 1952/2008, p. 80, “I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. I can understand only in human terms.” Anxiety is seen by existential therapists as being a condition of living, naturally arising from a person’s striving to survive. ~ Rollo May, 1975, The Courage to Create, p. 13, “It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.” ~ Xuefu Wang, 2019, The Symbol of the Iron House: From Survivalism to Existentialism. Irvin Yalom, whose Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential psychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four "ultimate concerns of life"--death, freedom, existential isolation, and … It takes our ideals and mocks them—even worse, it takes our ideas of what is normal, everyday behavior and it undermines them.” 153-154). The reactive process which is inherent in the organism not only gradually arrives at freedom from the intrinsic properties of things but also proceeds from there to assign its own stimulus meanings. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall of relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.” ~ Rollo May, 1979, Psychology and the Human Dilemma, p. 56, “But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.” “Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. This aloneness leads to feelings of meaninglessness which can be overcome only by creating one’s own values and meanings. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness – especially consciousness of their own being – think in terms of names, words, symbols.” 1, p. 35). “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” Existential psychotherapy is a style of therapy that places emphasis on the human condition as a whole. ~ Kirk Schneider, 2004, Rediscovery of Awe, p. xiii, “Good art wounds as well as delights. “…belatedly making peace with Freud and leaning onto Fromm and Rank means accepting into one’s thought a truly rounded and less rosy view of human nature; whereas I once as a social scientist dedicatedly followed Rousseau in his straight-forward view that man is natural or good, and is “corrupted by society,” I slighted the darker side, the side of human evil and viciousness. ~ Ernest Becker, 1971 Birth and Death of Meaning (pp. Existential psychotherapy uses a positive approach that ⦠But the Creator’s common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.” 1, p. 39), “…suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning…” ~ David N. Elkins, 1998, Beyond Religion, p. 62, “It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.” ~ Xuefu Wang, 2019, The Symbol of the Iron House: From Survivalism to Existentialism. ~ Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 1952/2008, p. 46, “The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. ~ Rollo May, 1969, Love and Will, p. 130, “Furthermore, I have met only a very few people—and most of these were not Americans—who had any real desire to be free. Explore 152 Existential Quotes by authors including Anne Lamott, Bo Burnham, and Tim Minchin at BrainyQuote. Let those who want to ascend to heaven do so! 2), p. 89, “…people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.” ~ James Baldwin, 1962 The Fire Next Time, p. 10, “Instinct, lifted into the ego sphere by consciousness is the power of will, and at the same time a tamed, directed, controlled instinct, which manifests itself freely within the individual personality, that is, creatively.” Kindle Edition. Before the weapon comes the image. We do not judge the people we love. Your Heart Will HealâA Gentle Guided Journal For Getting Over Anyone , by Chrissy Stockton, will help you uncover inner peace and the strength to move on. This is known as âexistential anxietyâ and is a normal outcome of facing the four ultimate concerns in life: death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness. Give me my depressions. Although this site is owned by Louis Hoffman, this site supports the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (RMHCPA), which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. ~ James Baldwin, 1955, Notes of a Native Son (pp. It focuses on concepts that are universally applicable to human existence including death, freedom, responsibility, and the meaning of life. To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. ~ Stephen A. Diamond, 1996, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic, p. 179. ~ Ernest Becker, 1971, Birth and Death of Meaning (p. 31). Freedom is hard to bear. All this gives his life a quality of drivenness, of underlying desperation, an obsession with the meaning of it and with his own significance as a creature. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1965, A Very Easy Death, p. 100, “The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1948, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, p. 156. ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 2000, Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, p. 104, “I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.” ~ Frantz Fanon, 1952/2008, Black Skin, White Masks, p. 202, “To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. ~ Nietzsche, 1873/1962, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, p. 83, “Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man’s unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of ‘the possible,’ and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.” Existential psychotherapy uses a positive approach that applauds human capacities and aspirations while simultaneously acknowledging human limitations. ~ Ernest Becker, 1973, The Denial of Death, p. 204, “…hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. 1), p. 138, “…no existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.” Free Press. Instead of … It has invented its own language of customs and rights.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 2000, Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, p. 84, “Self-acceptance too often is intertwined with attempts to rationalize ourselves as being right or justified in our mistakes instead of embracing our humanity as imperfect creatures. The Existential Academy in Fortune Green, London, is the home of existential therapy and hosts the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, an existential training institute and post-graduate school as well as Dilemma Consultancy, which provides existential psychotherapy, counselling and coaching. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Existential therapy is practiced throughout the world. Many existential philosophers have described the anxiety of groundlessness as ″ur-anxiety″—the most fundamental anxiety, an anxiety that cuts deeper even than the anxiety associated with death." It is not that the flag has risen in value, but that the selves are more anxious about their own. Existential therapy is a unique form of psychotherapy that looks to explore difficulties from a philosophical perspective. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1948, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, p. 7, “I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. It is just like the roads across the earth. ~ James Baldwin, 1962 The Fire Next Time, p. 91-92, “…though the fact of death destroys us, the idea of death can save us. Hopefully, this will help tantalize readers into seeking out some of the books. ... Existential psychotherapy is the … But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure. ~ Lu Xun, 1926/1961 (“The Classics and the Vernacular” in Lu Xun Selected Works, Vol. Existential psychotherapy shares many similarities with humanistic psychology, … Rollo May. It was a very powerful experience. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.” But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being.” ~ Louis Hoffman, 2014, The Proper Use of Tradition and Scholarly Authority. ~ Stephen A. Diamond, 1996, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic, p. 9, “…history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.” “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. ~ Louis Hoffman, 2014, The Proper Use of Tradition and Scholarly Authority, “I find myself one day in the world, and I acknowledge one right for myself: the right to demand human behavior from the other. Paul B. Lieberman, Leston L. Havens, in Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, 2002 VI. Although he is known more for his critiquing of the culture and ideas of his time, a closer reading shows that he greatly values history and tradition. It comprises a richly diverse spectrum of theories and practices. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! In this shadowy monotone we exercise and modify our fragile selves, while our pet cat sits purringly by, convinced probably that we are only purring too.” Existential therapy (or existential psychotherapy) is based on some of the main ideas behind existentialism as a philosophy, including: We are responsible for our own choices. “Generally, the more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in these symbolic extensions of ourselves. ~ Albert Camus, 1955, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p. 3, “…man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. 2), p. 246, “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. ~ Rollo May, 1991, The Cry for Myth, p. 165, “When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.” The movement prevailed in philosophy, literature, art, theology, and psychology. ~ Sam Keen, 1991, “The Enemy Maker” (in C. Zweig & J. Abrams, Meeting the Shadow), p. 198-199, “Gods and goddesses, also, are personifications of principles; while theologians and philosophers often remind us that the word God points to a mystery so deep that it can never be captured in human form, most of us continue to personify God.” This is true whether one is constructing things or reconstructing oneself. ~ Donald Rothberg, The Engaged Spiritual Life, p. 74, “…a psychotherapy that is chiefly concerned with information and a psychotherapy that centers on the actual experiencing of the client in the living moment has great significance for life-changing psychotherapy.” ~ Rollo May, 1985, My Quest for Beauty, p. 172, “This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. In other words, our awareness of death can throw a different perspective on life and incite us to rearrange our priorities.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889/1990, Twilight of the Idols (Trans. ~ Stephen A. Diamond, 1996, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic, p. 179, “Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.” “Compassion on the part of the therapist is the essence of any psychotherapy which deserves the name.” The roots of existential psychotherapy. 75-76. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness.” Instead, the issues themselves will change; their boundaries will become more permeable; possibilities will be disclosed that simply were not accessible before.” ~ Albert Camus, 1955, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p. 4, “Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 1959/1984, Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 117, “The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.” ~ Lu Xun, 1919/1961 (“Random Thoughts – Dying in Bitterness,” in Lu Xun Selected Works, Vol. “The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1965, A Very Easy Death, p. 60, “Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.” Due partly to its evolving diversity, existential therapy is not easily defined. Existential psychotherapy has to be reinvented and recreated by every therapist and with every new client. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1948, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, p. 129, “What is demanded of man [sic] is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his [sic] incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. Mind culminates in the organism’s ability to choose what it will react to.” “But in order to change a situation one has first to see it for what it is: in the present case, to accept the fact, whatever one does with it thereafter, that the Negro has been formed by this nation, for better or for worse, and does not belong to any other—not to Africa, and certainly not to Islam. 2), p. 142, “Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people… Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.” ~ Ernest Becker (1975), Escape from Evil, p. 81, “In every society, in every community, there exists, must exist, a channel, an outlet, whereby the energy accumulated in the form of aggressiveness can be released.” As mentioned, the roots of existential psychotherapy can be found in the work of philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre whose work dealt with the complexities of the human existence. ), p. 78, “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” Verily, their souls lack more than honey. From phenomenology it borrows the idea that the individual’s immediate experience and personal grasp of reality is primary and the appropriate subject of concern. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. He has many standard texts in this area, some of which are in their double figure editions, so we are dealing with one of the few greats in this field. ~ James F. T. Bugental, 1999, Psychotherapy Isn’t What You Think, p. 55, “One must not let oneself be misled: they say ‘Judge not!’ but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.” ~ Tom Greening, 2010, (cited in On Becoming an Existential Psychologist: Journeys of Contemporary Leaders by Trent Claypool [dissertation]), p. “…the purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.” ~ Mark Yang, 2012, Pain, Suffering, and Companionship, “Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment.” Stuart Gilbert), p. 262-263, “Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.” ), p. 18, “If you only care about how to live and pay no attention how to live, you may fall into one of two polarized models of life. ~ Rollo May, 1961, “The Meaning of the Oedipus Myth” ~ Paul Tillich, 1957, Systematic Theology (Vol. “We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.” IRVIN D. YALOM QUOTES. ~ Louis Hoffman, 2014, Finding Oneself and Creating Oneself: Implications of the Psychotherapy Folkore, “Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.” It sort of felt like paying one’s existential dues… That if you are going to be alive in the 20th century or 21st century, that you are going to claim to be alive and had lived in that time, then what should you be aware of, or in touch with?… There’s a whole bunch of existential facts that one ought to really… embrace, or acknowledge, even feel existential guilt about.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1948, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, p. 91. Great works are often born on a streetcorner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. ~ James F. T. Bugental, 1999, Psychotherapy Isn’t What You Think, p. 61, “In humanistic psychotherapy, empathy is more than a technique or foundation for establishing a good therapeutic alliance, it is healing in and of itself.” 2), p. 10, “…you have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.” ― Albert Camus. ~ Frantz Fanon, 1952/2008, Black Skin, White Masks, p. 124, “…convictions might be more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.” existential angst Existential Crises Life over thinking Quotes This guided journal will help you move on. James Baldwin, 1955, Notes of a Native Son (p. 67). See more ideas about existential therapy, existentialism, therapy. ~ Frantz Fanon, 1952, Black Skin, White Mask, p. 206, “A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger — especially at danger in the social sciences — of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.”, Common Misperceptions of Existential-Humanistic Therapy, Key Figures in Existential-Humanistic Therapy, Humanistic Psychology and Existential-Humanistic Psychology, Common Misperceptions of Humanistic Psychology and Therapy, Transpersonal Psychology and Existential-Humanistic Psychology, Is Therapy an Art or a Science? ~ Albert Camus, 1948, The Plague (Trans. ~ Lu Xun, 1925/1961 (“On Looking Facts in the Face” in Lu Xun Selected Works, Vol. ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 2000, Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, p. 26, “Seeking to discover one’s nature is different than seeking an essential self. 88-89). I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Here are a couple of quotes I really like about loneliness: “Language has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. ~ James Baldwin, 1955, Notes of a Native Son, p. 143, “But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.” Viewed in this way, no choice can be mine or yours alone, no experienced impact of choice can be separated in terms of ‘my responsibility’ versus ‘your responsibility’, no sense of personal freedom can truly avoid its interpersonal dimensions.” Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Communication is an effort to overcome the subject-object split and to open ourselves to the oneness and interconnectedness of all things. It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. "Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth." ~ Rollo May, Freedom & Destiny, p. 20, “If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me–the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the appreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart–I would say, ‘This is a Faustian bargain! I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.” Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. I don’t know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own.” ~ Paul Tillich, 1957, The Dynamics of Faith, p. 94, “What is the ideal for mental health, then? Existential therapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning—often centering on you rather than on the symptom. ~ Viktor E. Frankl, 1959/1984, Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 85, “What clients need is trust that they have the resilience, in themselves, to meet the unknown, to experience it, and to survive.” There must be balance. ~ Albert Camus, 1948, The Plague (Trans. 114-116). Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. ~ Rollo May, 1975, The Courage to Create, p. 100, “…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!… There can be no peace without hope.” Existential therapy is a philosophically informed approach to counseling or psychotherapy. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare, on the private, domestic, and international levels.” 91-92). We sit comfortably in our armchairs pouring forth conventional symbolic abstractions. ~ Lu Xun, 1926/1961 (“Dangerous Ground” in Lu Xun Selected Works, Vol. The central objective of existential therapy is to enable the patient to live authentically: actively absorbed and involved with other people and things, while appreciating and accepting his nature as being-in-the-world. But this unfolding is confused and complicated by man’s basic animal fears: by his deep and indelible anxieties about his own impotence and death, and his fear of being overwhelmed and sucked up into the world and into others. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies – to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them – brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.” the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith…” '” If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?” That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. “I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering…. As Rank put it so bluntly: Man creates “out of freedom a prison.” This means everyman, in any society, from the most “primitive” to the most “civilized,” no matter what the child training programs or economic system.” ~ Rollo May, 1961, The Meaning of the Oedipus Myth ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, 1894/1990, The Anti-Christ (R. J. Hollingdale, Trans. Explore 152 Existential Quotes (page 2) by authors including Anne Lamott, Bo Burnham, and Tim Minchin at BrainyQuote. This section contains pages on important topics in existential-humanistic therapy: Common Misperceptions of Existential-Humanistic Therapy; Key Figures in Existential-Humanistic Therapy; The Existential Givens. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had – power.” Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.” Once you identify and acknowledge the intrapsychic conflicts that are holding your back, you feel greater joy and a greater sense of meaning in each day that passes. It is essentially about investigating human existence and the . Logos is deeper than logic.” For me bourgeois society is a closed society where it’s not good to be alive, where the air is rotten and ideas and people are putrefying. 2), p. 165, “I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.” For older quotes, I have tried to update them into gender-inclusive language, though sometimes I have also included them in their original. The former concerns itself with how to live, the latter with why to live, the meaning of living. “Science is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. ― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy. ~ Parker J. Palmer, 1998, The Courage to Teach, p. 54, “Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours…” Stuart Gilbert), p. 34, “Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.” I cannot live without my soul. ~ James Baldwin, 1962 The Fire Next Time, p. 91, “…despair is suffering without meaning.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir, 1948, The Ethics Of Ambiguity, p. 120. “A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. ~ James Baldwin, 1962, The Fire Next Time, p. 81, “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.” ), p. 116, “The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.” ~ Rollo May, 1985, My Quest for Beauty, p. 214. “To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”. ~ Rollo May, 1975, The Courage to Create, p. 35, “I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. “To believe that one has a higher reason to take human life, to feel that torture and murder are in the service of a divine cause is the kind of mandate that has always given sadists everywhere the purest fulfillment: they are free to remain on the level of the body, to pillage real flesh and blood creatures, to transact in lives in the service of the highest power.” ~ Paul Tillich as quoted by Rollo May, 1988, in Paulus: Tillich as Spiritual Teacher, p. 71, “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” In making our own … Cultural relativity is a pitiless weapon precisely because it sets our hero-systems up on end. ~ Lu Xun, 1922/1959, Preface to A Call to Arms (in Lu Xun Selected Works, Vol. ~ David N. Elkins, Beyond Religion, p. 193, “…when a story survives in folklore, it expresses in some way a region of the ‘local soul. 2), p. 58, “In the beginning, we create the enemy. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.” Feb 17, 2014 - Explore Chris Moore-Barbosa's board "Existential therapy" on Pinterest. So it is with absurdity. “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. And I believe that a man [sic] who takes a stand against this living death is in a way a revolutionary.” ~ Rollo May, 1967, The Meaning of Anxiety, p. 72, “There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.”
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