Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I have long believed that love and will are interdependent and belong together. Both are conjunctive processes of being - a reaching… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of… — Rollo May Copy Share
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the… — Rollo May Copy Share
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind… — Rollo May Copy Share
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May Copy Share
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the… — Rollo May Copy Share
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. — Rollo May Copy Share
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly… — Rollo May Copy Share
