No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.
Rollo MayThat because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
Rollo MayThe creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Rollo MayIf the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Rollo MayDogmatism 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. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)
Rollo May