All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — 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
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — 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
What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — 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
