I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
ROLLO MAYTherapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
More Rollo May Quotes
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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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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Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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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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All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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