Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
ROLLO MAYIn order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
More Rollo May Quotes
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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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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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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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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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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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Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one’s total orientation to life.
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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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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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