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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
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All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
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Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
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