Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. Rollo May More Quotes by Rollo May More Quotes From Rollo May The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. Rollo May The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. Rollo May lonelinessacceptancepowerfeelings Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities. Rollo May innerpossibilitiessignsproblems Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone. Rollo May alonebeing-alonelonelinesspositive Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' Rollo May who-am-iquestionpersonalidentity Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other. Rollo May humanhuman-dignitydignityfreedom The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being. Rollo May visionhonestytruthintegrity I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities. Rollo May freeexperiencebelievepeople Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness. Rollo May humanneedownbeing Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots. Rollo May nationrobotsfreedompolitical Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. Rollo May somethingcarematterrelationship While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers. Rollo May laughboredomemptinesspeople
