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.
ROLLO MAYForge in the smithy of your soul.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Mass communication–wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued–presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)
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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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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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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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