Rollo May Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• 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

  Truth, Believe, Doubt

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

• Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

  Rollo May

  Passion, Creativity, Commitment

• 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)

  Rollo May

  Self, Wish, Weight

• Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

  Rollo May

  Mean, Creativity, Self

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Rollo May

  Consciousness, Awareness, Possibility

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

• Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Issues, Self

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

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

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