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 relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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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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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
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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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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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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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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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