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Creativity is a yearning for immortality

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Yearning
Immortality
Creativity

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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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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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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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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
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Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
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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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Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.
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Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
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It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
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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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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
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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.
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
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