Rollo May quotes - page 5

Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. (Rollo May)
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. View quote
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The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. View quote
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The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both. View quote
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Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. View quote
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I, for one, believe we vastly overemphasize the human being's concern with security and survival satisfaction because they so neatly fit our cause-and-effect way of thinking. I believe Nietzsche and Kierkegaard were more accurate when they described man as the organism makes certain values - prestige, power, tenderness - more important than pleasure and even more important than survival itself. View quote
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The self is made up, on its growing edge, of the models, forms, metaphors, myths, and all other kinds of psychic content which give it direction in its self-creation. This is a process that goes on continuously. View quote
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Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and those who followed them accurately foresaw this growing split between truth and reality in Western culture, and they endeavored to call Western man back from the delusion that reality can be comprehended in an abstracted, detached way. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and, more important, to experience ourselves as having significance. View quote
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Thinking and self-creating are inseparable. When we become aware of all the fantasies in which we see ourselves in the future, pilot ourselves this way or that, this becomes obvious. (Rollo May)
The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand. View quote
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The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself. View quote
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I have described the human dilemma as the capacity of man to view himself as object and as subject. View quote
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World is the pattern of meaningful relations in which a person exists and in the design of which he or she participates. It has objective reality, to be sure, but it is not simply that. World is interrelated with the person at every moment. View quote
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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 her morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. View quote
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Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety. View quote
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We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad. View quote
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He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stultifying control. View quote
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We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. View quote
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It is a road to universals beyond discrete personal experience. (Rollo May)
The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it makes the present richer and more profound. View quote
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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. View quote
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. View quote
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All life is a flux between these two aspects of the daimonic. View quote
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