Quotes from Rollo May

Absorption, being caught up in, wholly involved, and so on, are used commonly to describe the state of the artist or scientist when creating or even the child at play. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Bilinçd???m?zdan gelecek kavray??lar? ya?amam?za alabilmek için, kendimize tek ba??na olabilme yetisi kazand?rmak zorunday?z.

But how can one write a book with any integrity," he wonders, "if there is no assurance of the few years time any good book takes?

Tinin yarat?c?l??? ussal, düzenli toplum ve ya?ama tarz?m?z?n yap?s?n? ve önkabulleni?lerini tehdit eder ve etmelidir. Bilinçd???, usd??? itilimler tam da do?alar?ndan ötürü ussall???m?za yönelik bir tehdit olu?turmak durumundad?rlar, o halde ya?ad???m?z kayg? kaç?n?lmazd?r.

This remark merely illustrates an attitude which runs through our society: so many people judge the value of their actions not on the basis of the action itself, but on the basis of how the action is accepted.

Hiçbir yetenek inkar? cezas?z kalmaz ve yetene?in inkar?na te?ebbüsün ad? nörozdur.

Ölümle (insan?n kendi varl???n?n hiçbir yank?s?n? bulamad??? bir dünyayla) yüz yüze gelebilme yetisi (cesareti) geli?menin önko?uludur, insan?n kendi bilincine varmas?n?n ve kendisini bulmas?n?n önko?ulu.

Tom was anxious about whether he could keep his job at the hospital or would have to go on relief, he exclaimed, "If I could not support my family, I'd as soon jump off the dock." That is, if the value of being a self-respecting wage-earner were threatened, Tom, like the salesman Willie Loman and countless other men in our society, would feel he no longer existed as a self, and might as well be dead.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

I have long believed that love and will are interdependent and belong together. Both are conjunctive processes of being - a reaching out to influence others, molding, forming, creating the consciousness of the other.

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

It is an obvious fact that when an age is torn loose from its moorings and everyone is to some degree thrown on his own, most people can take steps to find and realize themselves.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.