Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAYEcstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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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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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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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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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.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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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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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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