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 More Quotes by Rollo May More Quotes From Rollo May The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. Rollo May progress turtles inspirational Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros. Rollo May falling-in-love love-is life By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death. Rollo May creativity able creative Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own Rollo May existentialism choices fundamentals 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. Rollo May community powerful home Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact. Rollo May creating artist race 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. Rollo May dedication missing answers Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not. Rollo May being-in-love love-is life Creativity is a yearning for immortality Rollo May yearning immortality creativity What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. Rollo May creativity said love-is Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age. Rollo May maturity understanding age 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. Rollo May decision responsibility courage Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get. Rollo May born creativity definitions The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message. Rollo May light dream reality We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment. Rollo May dedication creativity commitment Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. Rollo May patterns creative courage To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked. Rollo May blocked lazy coward If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. Rollo May protest remains forgiveness ... 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. Rollo May creating creativity artist The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. Rollo May values way
