The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAYForge in the smithy of your soul.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
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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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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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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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 creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
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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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