Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
running way habit
Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.
risk intimacy self-actualization
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
people purpose existential
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
life falling-in-love being-in-love
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." ... 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.
rebel saint humans
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
life good-life survival
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
attitude acceptance men
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
reality doe humans
One does not become fully human painlessly.
emotional goal joy
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
beauty giving joy
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
world culture hell
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
depression depressing sadness
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
dangerous knows
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
relationship self evil
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.