Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
ROLLO MAYWhen 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/
More Rollo May Quotes
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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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.
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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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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