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• The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

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  People, Purpose, Existential

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• Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

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  Country, Communication, Views

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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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  Running, Sex, Ironic

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Passion

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• Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

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  Worry, Boredom, Anxiety

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• By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.

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  Men, Community, Enemy

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

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  Art, Imagination, What If

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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.

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  Artist, Race, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man

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  Running, Men, Long

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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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  Stronger, Culture, Definitions

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

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  Creative, Consciousness, Intensity

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

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  Creativity, Creative, Able

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Forge in the smithy of your soul.

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  Soul, Your Soul

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• A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

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  Anxiety, Stronger, Threat

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 51, 1967.

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• This is hard for parents to say genuinely.

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  Parent, Hard

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• Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

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  Drug, Vivid, Matter

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

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  Relationship, Self, Evil

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• What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

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  Creativity, Love Is, Said

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Courage, Creativity, Simple

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• We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

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  Love, Capacity To Love, Capacity

  "Man's Search for Himself".

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• Creativity is a yearning for immortality

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  Creativity, Immortality, Yearning

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

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  Purpose, Used, Will Power

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

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  Self, Wish, Weight

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• Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

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  Maturity, Understanding, Age

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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