What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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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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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?
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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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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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