However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
ROLLO MAYA myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Memory 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.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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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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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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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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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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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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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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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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