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We Fear Our Highest Possibilities. We Are Generally Afraid To Become That Which We Can Glimpse In Our Most Perfect Moments, Under Conditions Of Great Courage. We Enjoy And Even Thrill To Godlike Possibilities We See In Ourselves In Such Peak Moments. And Yet We Simultaneously Shiver With Weakness, Awe, And Fear Before These Very Same Possibilities.

People With Intelligence Must Use Their Intelligence, People With Eyes Must Use Their Eyes, People With The Capacity To Love Have The Impulse To Love And The Need To Love In Order To Feel Healthy. Capacities Clamor To Be Used, And Cease Their Clamor Only When They Are Used Sufficiently. That Is To Say, Capacities Are Needs, And Therefore Are Intrinsic Values As Well.

Man Has His Future Within Him, Dynamically Alive At This Present Moment.

One Can Choose To Go Back Toward Safety Or Forward Toward Growth. Growth Must Be Chosen Again And Again; Fear Must Be Overcome Again And Again.

We Fear To Know The Fearsome And Unsavory Aspects Of Ourselves, But We Fear Even More To Know The Godlike In Ourselves.