Rollo May

Lang ist´s her, als ich an das Zitat von Rollo May dachte. Er beschreibt, daß der, der aus Gründen aus dem Gleichklang der Masse aussteigt, für immer ausgeschlossen wird. Für immer? Man muß sich schon ausziehen und sich selbst geißeln, um in die Gemeinschaft wieder aufgenommen zu werden. Freilich hat man dann keine Selbstachtung mehr und ist nur noch ein Rohr im Wind,

Rollo Reece May war ein US-amerikanischer Psychologe und Vertreter der Existenziellen Psychotherapie, eines Zweiges des humanistischen Psychologie. Mays bekanntestes Buch ist Love and Will aus dem Jahre 1969. Zusammen mit Viktor Frankl und Irvin D. Yalom gilt er als bedeutendster Vertreter der existenziellen Psychotherapie. (Wikipedia)

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When we avoid the painful parts of our life we become alienated from the world, others and ourselves -- and as a consequence of our avoidance feel pain, anxiety and depression.
-- Rollo May

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When we avoid the painful parts of our life we become alienated from the world, others and ourselves -- and as a consequence of our avoidance feel pain, anxiety and depression.
-- Rollo May

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« The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. »

― Rollo May

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« Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it. »

― Rollo May

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« Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. »

― Rollo May

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« Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning that you don't have room to put into your poem; it is an aid to finding new meaning, a stimulus to condensing your meaning, to simplifying and purifying it, and to discovering on a more universal dimension the essence you wish to express. »

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« When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

― Rollo May

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« Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. »

― Rollo May

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« Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the "divine madness" to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for … »

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« Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. »

— Rollo May

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« It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings. »

― Rollo May

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« Those who present directly and immediately the new forms and symbols are the artists — the dramatists, the musicians, the painters, the dancers, the poets, and those poets of the religious sphere we call saints. They portray the new symbols in the form of images — poetic, aural, plastic, or dramatic, as the case may be. They live out their imaginations. »

— Rollo May

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« Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. (…) Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. »

— Rollo May

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« Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. »

— Rollo May

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« The creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by its very nature, a threat to rationality and external control. »

— Rollo May

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« The creative process must be explored not as the product of sickness, but as representing the highest degree of emotional health, as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. »

— Rollo May

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« If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution. »

— Rollo May

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

― Rollo May

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« Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the forms ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it. »

― Rollo May

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