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
mean creativity self
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
running long add
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
creativity something-new process
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.
creativity expression people
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
creative consciousness intensity
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
fighting covered-up may
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
struggle self issues
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.
sex creative example
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
mean purpose force
They pursue meaninglessness until they force it to mean.
thinking quality speak
The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
courage responsibility decision
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
creativity creating world
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
men may way
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.
religious attitude intellectual
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.