Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
Rollo MayThe creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
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 MayIf the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Rollo May