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
real stimulus ability
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
opposites people break-out
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
love life disappointment
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
violence arise powerlessness
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
mean leader culture
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society Socrates , Christ , Freud , all the way down the line.
stronger culture definitions
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
people suffering introspection
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
art creativity rivers
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
courage soulmate self-esteem
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
depression ideas creating
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
courage moving despair
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
meaningful memories past
Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.
love-is self loving-others
Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.
life wisdom work
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.