Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
Rollo MayMots clés inspirational strength purpose being
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
Rollo MayMots clés meaning existentialism relationship
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
Rollo MayMots clés love existentialism
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Rollo MayMots clés existentialism myths
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own
Rollo MayMots clés morality existentialism conviction
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
Rollo MayMots clés myth existentialism
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.
Rollo MayMots clés art myth existentialism symbol
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Rollo MayMots clés science myth existentialism
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.
Rollo MayMots clés art beauty existentialism
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)
Rollo MayMots clés doubt conviction commitment
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