I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAYThere 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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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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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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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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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
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Artists 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.
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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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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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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