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.
ROLLO MAYMemory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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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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It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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