Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
ROLLO MAYReal freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
More Rollo May Quotes
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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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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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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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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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
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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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In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
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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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