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- It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
- The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are…
- The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,…
- Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its…
- In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting…
- From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.
- Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
- I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there…
- Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.…
- The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person.…
- The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding…
- When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
- Just going around having different experiences is worthless, if one does not learn something about oneself and the rest of the world from the experiences.
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