The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
ROLLO MAYOne of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
More Rollo May Quotes
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To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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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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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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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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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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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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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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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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