Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
forgiveness protest remains
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
sex creative example
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
plato greek remember
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
flower order civilization
The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.
emotion reason persons
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
beautiful stars book
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.
reading emotional profound
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.
wish weight capacity
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
anxiety stronger threat
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
relaxation transition moments
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
soul your-soul
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
fighting scene individual
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
way values
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
fighting vanity needs
Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.