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
artist creative anxiety
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)
people creative anxiety
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.
courage profound creative
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.
courage creative patterns
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
creativity creative able
By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
struggle creative limits
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
creative consciousness intensity
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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.
creativity imagination creative
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.
among courage foundation gives love personal reality value values virtue virtues
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity.It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personalvalues.
love-is way amazing-things
The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
inspirational quiet-people creativity
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
capacity conscious dreams ideas images imagination mind phenomena psychic sort visions
Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions . . . .
unique men animal
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.