Rollo May Quotes - Page 6

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

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  Risk, Intimacy, Self Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

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  Discovery, Interesting, Existentialism

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

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  Giving, World, Patterns

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Meaningful, Artist, Feelings

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

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  Dedication, Missing, Answers

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• This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

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  Thinking, Quality, Speak

  "Freedom and Destiny".

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• Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

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  Courage, Moving, Long

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

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  Creativity, Expression, People

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

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  Courage, Responsibility, Decision

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

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  Passion, Creativity, Childhood

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

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• Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

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  Consciousness, Awareness, Possibility

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.114, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

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  Creativity, Definitions, Born

  "The Courage to Create".

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• Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

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  Teacher, Reality, Anxiety

  Rollo May Ph.D. (2015). “The Meaning Of Anxiety”, p.66, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, 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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  Life, Falling In Love, Being In Love

  "Love & Will".

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• Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

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  Artist, Creative, Anxiety

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• Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

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  Struggle, Writing, Creativity

  Rollo May (2011). “Love & Will”, p.320, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

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  Sex, Creative, Example

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

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  Perspective, Historical, Facts

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• The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.

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  Lines, Lovers, Poet

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

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  Wish, Weight, Capacity

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Home, Community

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• The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.

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  Data, Order, Giving

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

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• The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.

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  Lying, Fate, Men

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• ... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

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  Creativity, Artist, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.45, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Becoming

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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