A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
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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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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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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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Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
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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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