The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
ROLLO MAYI learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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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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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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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