When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
ROLLO MAYThe 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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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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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
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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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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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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 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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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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