Rollo May Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Hands

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.59, 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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• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

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  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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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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• Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

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  Beach, Inspiration, Writing

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.66, 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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• 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.

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  Essence, Spinning, Facts

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

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• Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.

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  Running, Wrestling, Artist

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• Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

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  Emotion, Reason, Persons

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

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  Character, Men, Self

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• If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

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  Depressing, Ifs

  Rollo May (1973). “Paulus: Reminiscences of a Friendship”, HarperCollins Publishers

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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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• Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

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  Technique, Tools, Consciousness

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• That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

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  Attitude, Acceptance, Men

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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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• One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

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  Leadership, Commitment, Leader

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.

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  Moving, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Heart, Views, Sunrise

  Rollo May (2015). “The Discovery of Being”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

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  Running, Way, Habit

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• The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

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  Confused, Artist, Listening

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

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  Forgiveness, Protest, Remains

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• 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.

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  Sycophants, Status Quo, Dissent

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

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  Joy, Creation, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, People

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• In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

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  Courage, Maturity, Simple

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p.191), 1953.

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