One can own the world and still be without the inner sense of pleasure, of joy, of courage, of creation. Now none of those things lead to the joy, the creativity that I’m talking about. We try to avoid anxiety by getting rich, by making a hundred thousand dollars when we’re twenty-one years of age, by becoming millionaires. Ur knowledge of our death is what gives us a normal anxiety that says to us, ‘ Make the most of these years you are alive.’ And on our impulse to move away from anxiety: In this Thinking Allowed Interview, his comments speak directly to our times: He has much to say about creativity and death, about our avarice for money over meaning, and about a joy deeper than ephemeral happiness. In the post-World War II 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, he contributed most notably to helping us honor life’s mystery and meaning and to be courageous and creative in a troubled world.Īs we talk in this disruptive early 21st-century about what it means to to be creative and to be brave, Rollo May merits a place in the conversation. He went on to pursue studies in English, psychotherapy, and even ministry.
He learned early to empathize with those who view reality differently, and he learned early how to fend for himself. When Rollo May was a boy, his mother often left him alone with his schizophrenic sister.
0 kommentar(er)
