Rollo MayThinkers

Anxiety is essential to the human condition; confrontation with it can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Care is a state in which something does matter... it is the source of human tenderness.

Conformity is the opposite of courage. Courage's opposite is not cowardice, but conformity.

Creativity is an ecstatic process of heightened consciousness which requires passion and commitment and brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.

Joy is rather than happiness, the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Memory is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.