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"The Courage to Create". Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy. Rollo May. Passion, Creativity, Commitment.
- “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” ― Rollo May.
- “Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.” ― Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself.
- “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ― Rollo May.
- “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.” ― Rollo May.
- Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. Rollo May. Real, Stimulus And Response, Ability.
- The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. Rollo May. Inspirational, Turtles, Progress.
- If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May. Depression, Ideas, Creating.
- Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. Rollo May. Courage, Moving, Despair.
- Rollo May
- 1975
- “Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be.
- “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.
- “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- “Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)” ― Rollo May, The Courage to Create.
- Anxiety and Self-Doubt are Unavoidable Aspects of the Creative Process. Creativity begins when a vision of something to create is formulated in your imagination.
- Creativity Requires Courage. Creativity requires courage. The creative process is not a path paved with pure joy, but one filled with suffering, obstacles, anxiety, and frustration.
- Chaos Feeds the Creative Impulse. Creators thrive on chaos, while rigidity and order are their enemies. In a stable state there is no room for novelty, and hence creation.
- Creativity Requires Destruction. When things are too stable and monotonous, the creator must act as a destroyer to create chaos – be it internal chaos or external chaos.
Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company 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 of feeling that goes with creativity.
Rollo May. Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. Rollo May. Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
