On Being a Real PersonA palace spider's extraordinary webs, which imitate paintings and carvings, become even more spectacular when she moves out into the garden |
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... confront life with a distinctive personal rejoinder is thus evident even in that most in- timate realm where heredity and environment impinge upon us in our physical organisms , we may certainly expect to find it everywhere else . III ...
... confront life with a distinctive personal rejoinder is thus evident even in that most in- timate realm where heredity and environment impinge upon us in our physical organisms , we may certainly expect to find it everywhere else . III ...
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... confront last what lies nearest , and in the practical handling of life multitudes of people become aware of , and wrestle with , every conceivable factor involved in the human situation before they face their primary problem - being a ...
... confront last what lies nearest , and in the practical handling of life multitudes of people become aware of , and wrestle with , every conceivable factor involved in the human situation before they face their primary problem - being a ...
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... confronting the world they do not forget to confront themselves . They are not merely mir- rors to reflect a tragic situation but persons who have their say concerning the meaning of that situation to themselves and others . The ...
... confronting the world they do not forget to confront themselves . They are not merely mir- rors to reflect a tragic situation but persons who have their say concerning the meaning of that situation to themselves and others . The ...
Contents
Shouldering Responsibility for Ourselves I | 1 |
What Being a Real Person Means | 27 |
The Principle of SelfAcceptance | 52 |
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accept achieve Alexis Carrel alibi anxiety basic become cause character chronic coherence commonly concerning confront conscience conscious creative cure dealing depression desire despondency dread effect egocentricity elements emotional drives environment escape ethical evil experience face fact factor failure fear feel friends habitually handling happiness Harry Emerson Fosdick heredity imagination impulses individual inner integration involves irreligion J. A. Hadfield Jesus life's living man's matter meaning ment mental mind minister modern moods moral morbid mother motives ness never obsessive one's oneself organized ourselves personal counselor personal response Phillips Brooks physical possible problem psychiatrist psychological pugnacity Ralph Waldo Emerson real person realm religion Robert Louis Stevenson says self-acceptance self-blame sense sexual situation social sonality soul spiritual sublimated thing thinks tion tive trouble volition whole William William Aldis Wright William Ernest Hocking William George Clark William Shakespeare woman worry worth-while York