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 MAYI learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
More Rollo May Quotes
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When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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The 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.
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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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One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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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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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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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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To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive – to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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