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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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• The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

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  Reality, Firsts, Moments

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

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  Relationship, Peace, Mean

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, 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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• 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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  Block, Technology, Dimensions

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

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  Self, Order, Vision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, 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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• 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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• Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

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  Creativity, Encounters, Understood

  "The Courage to Create".

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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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• 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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• 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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• It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

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  Freedom, Moving, Journey

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.174, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

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  Way, Needs, Our Society

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.179, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

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  Attitude, Character, Opportunity

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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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• 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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• 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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• Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

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  Courage, Reality, Like Love

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, 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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• There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

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  Character, Doe, Sooner Or Later

  Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.57, 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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