It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. Rollo May More Quotes by Rollo May More Quotes From Rollo May When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination. Rollo May creativityimaginationtime Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. Rollo May anxietycouragemoving Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day. Rollo May boundseach-daydoe One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential. Rollo May life-isneeds People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are. Rollo May dangerouspeopleway Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. Rollo May intensityconsciousnesscreative Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Rollo May hatedepressionfriendship Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. Rollo May becoming When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this 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-lovefalling-in-lovelife Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. Rollo May artistforeverorder Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. Rollo May boredomanxietyworry The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such. Rollo May fatemenlying There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. Rollo May courage-to-changechange It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying. Rollo May sensitive-personintuitionlife It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. Rollo May anxietymotivationlong Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies. Rollo May healinggamesart A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Rollo May patternsgivingworld Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter. Rollo May vividdrugmatter The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May relationshippeacemean Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Rollo May self-actualizationintimacyrisk
