Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
Rollo MayIn my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo MayOur powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.
Rollo MayWhat anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.
Rollo May