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We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
Rollo May
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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.
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Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning heart. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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