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“We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.”

Quote by Rollo May

Book:The Courage to Create

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The Courage to Create

This book explores the nature of creativity and provides insights into how individuals can cultivate and express their creative potential. more

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Rollo May

Rollo May was an American psychologist born on April 21, 1909, and died on October 22, 1994. He was a significant figure in existential psychology and is considered one of the pioneers of the field. more

“We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.”

People Inspirational Might Doubt Commitment Claims Committed Convinced Unconscious Spite Enviromental

Author:Rollo May

“Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.”

Inspirational Trying Achieve Detached Enviromental

Book:The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

Source: The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery

“None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.”

Inspirational Causes Imagination Support Lonely Capture Quests Crusades Enviromental

Book:Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

Source: Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times

“But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.”

Inspirational Earth Imagine Tire Fullness Bud Enviromental Fullness Of Life

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.”

Inspirational Art Fields Building Bird Beast Yield Bees Worms Moles Enviromental Thickets

Book:An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Source: An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

“[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.”

Inspirational Years Wells Past Social Pleasure Emotion Taste Behavior Years Ago Patterns Code Enviromental

Book:The Pursuit of Pleasure

Source: The Pursuit of Pleasure

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