Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYIt 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings.
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Suffering is nature’s way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
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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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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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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
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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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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.
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