If, when he first begins tentatively to say “No,” his parents beat him down rather than love and encourage him, he thereafter will say “No” not as a … - Rollo May

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

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.

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