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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

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
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Consciousness
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.
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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
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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.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
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Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
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There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.
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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
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It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings. (p. 16-17)
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Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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