When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.
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 ma… - Rollo May
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 ma…
- Rollo May
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. - Rollo May
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. - Rollo May
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. - Rollo May
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom. - Rollo May
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
One does not become fully human painlessly. - Rollo May
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) - Rollo May
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)
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