#rollo may

[nousrose]

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

Man's Search for Himself

Rollo May

#quote #rollo may #psychology

[old-school-romantics]

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. 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.

-Rollo May, The Courage to Create

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[funeral]

Rollo May, The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

#rollo may #psychology #existential psychology #psychotherapy #excerpts #p

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Romance Sentimentale, 1930

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“Creative people, as I see them, 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 the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.” ― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

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[entheognosis]

But if you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

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[yorgunherakles]

hep kendini fazla önemsemesi öğretildi. şimdi kötülüğünün kökeninde kendine dair duyduğu kibrin yattığı belli değil mi?

rollo may - kendini arayan insan

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[philosophors]

“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.”

— Rollo May, “Love and Will”

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[poligraf]

Those who present directly and immediately the new forms and symbols are the artists — the dramatists, the musicians, the painters, the dancers, the poets, and those poets of the religious sphere we call saints. They portray the new symbols in the form of images — poetic, aural, plastic, or dramatic, as the case may be. They live out their imaginations.

— Rollo May

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[oluruvar]

#Rollo may #Yaratma cesareti #Evt kitapları çizerek ve notlar alarak okurum

[aspiritualwarriors]

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.

— Rollo May

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[beljar]

When Spinoza in the seventeenth century used the word reason, he meant an attitude toward life in which the mind united the emotions with the ethical goals and other aspects of the “whole man.” When people today use the term they almost always imply a splitting of the personality. They ask in one form or another: “Should I follow reason or give way to sensual passions and needs or be faithful to my ethical duty?

Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself, 1953

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[ma-pi-ma]

È un'abitudine ridicola degli esseri umani il correre più veloci quando hanno perso la strada.

Rollo May

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[funeral]

Rollo May, The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

#rollo may #psychology #existential psychology #psychotherapy #excerpts #p

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

speciesbarocus: Il Pordenone (1483–1539): Portrait of a Musician. 1515-20? (Detail: hand and sheet music booklet)

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“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.” ― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

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[entheognosis]

The ones for whom the conventional pretenses and defenses of society no longer work. They are the more sensitive and gifted members of society; they need to get help because they are less successful at rationalising it than the ‘well adjusted’.

Rollo May

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[aylakmadammmm]

"Her savaşın başlangıcında... düşmanımızı alelacele şeytani bir imgeye dönüştürürüz; ondan sonra da, savaştığımız şeytan olduğu için, savaşın uyandırdığı tüm zahmetli ve ruhani soruları kendimize sormadan savaş zeminine geçebiliriz. Artık öldürdüklerimizin de tıpkı kendimiz gibi insanlar olduğu gerçeğiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalmayız.”

#alıntı #Rollo may