What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
ROLLO MAY- If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYEcstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
ROLLO MAYCreativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
ROLLO MAYSuffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
ROLLO MAYFreedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
ROLLO MAYVanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
ROLLO MAYIf you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
ROLLO MAYDoes not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
ROLLO MAYWhen people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYCompetitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
ROLLO MAYThere is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
ROLLO MAYIt is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
ROLLO MAYPeople only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
ROLLO MAYPeople attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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