Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.
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Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
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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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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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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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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Vanity and narcissism – the compulsive need to be admired and praised – undermine one’s courage, for one then fights on someone else’s conviction rather than one’s own.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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