Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
ROLLO MAYThe 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.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
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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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Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
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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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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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A mien which seems to say, “You are looking at somebody now.” For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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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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Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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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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It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.
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