Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAYThe mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
More Rollo May Quotes
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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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.
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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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.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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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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