Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
ROLLO MAYThe 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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.
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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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The 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.
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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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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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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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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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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?
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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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