Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth.
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Fortunately, 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.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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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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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
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This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
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Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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