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Rollo May Quotes

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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact  (Rollo May Quotes) In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents  (Rollo May Quotes) Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act  (Rollo May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes) Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us  (Rollo May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes) Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all  (Rollo May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes) Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home... To be a member of one’s community is to share in its myths  (Rollo May Quotes) One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him  (Rollo May Quotes) When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship  (Rollo May Quotes) Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos  (Rollo May Quotes) What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?  (Rollo May Quotes) Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line  (Rollo May Quotes) One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves  (Rollo May Quotes) I became a psychotherapist because that’s where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts  (Rollo May Quotes) Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not  (Rollo May Quotes) There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history  (Rollo May Quotes) Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?  (Rollo May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes) Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be  (Rollo May Quotes) All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life  (Rollo May Quotes) Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center  (Rollo May Quotes) We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment  (Rollo May Quotes) The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe  (Rollo May Quotes) Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness  (Rollo May Quotes) Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence  (Rollo May Quotes) 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 May Quotes) 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  (Rollo May Quotes)
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