Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYThere is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
More Rollo May Quotes
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence/
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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