The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
ROLLO MAYThe ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
ROLLO MAYWhat if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
ROLLO MAYEcstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
ROLLO MAYThere can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
ROLLO MAYThis personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
ROLLO MAYWhen people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
ROLLO MAYDepression is the inability to construct a future.
ROLLO MAYFinding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him.
ROLLO MAYCourage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
ROLLO MAYIn order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
ROLLO MAYCreativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAYA person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
ROLLO MAYI learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAYThe purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
ROLLO MAYRecall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
ROLLO MAYThis is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.
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