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. Rollo May More Quotes by Rollo May More Quotes From Rollo May All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life. Rollo May creativity artist struggle Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be. Rollo May creativity courage profound Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy. Rollo May using-your-talents creativity courage Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it? Rollo May responsibility character hands They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean. Rollo May force purpose mean The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. Rollo May creativity expression people Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. Rollo May creating encounters creativity There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. Rollo May sooner-or-later doe character Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Rollo May creativity something-new process Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center. Rollo May understood encounters creativity Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead. Rollo May courage long moving Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form. Rollo May transition normal age Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it. Rollo May creativity struggle writing A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance. Rollo May patterns giving world The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. Rollo May limits creative struggle When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. Rollo May flare-up mad feelings Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world. Rollo May unique self men Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you! Rollo May starting phrases movement Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness. Rollo May care matter doe A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture. Rollo May perspective historical facts
