Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYLife comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
More Rollo May Quotes
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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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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