Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
ROLLO MAYFortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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It 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.
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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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Courage 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.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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This 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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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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.
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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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