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 MAYArtists 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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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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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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