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Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

Rollo May
Character, Responsibility, Hands
Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

Rollo May
Attitude, Character, Opportunity

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Rollo May
Character, Doe, Sooner Or Later
Rollo May (1999). “Freedom and Destiny”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

Rollo May
Character, Men, Self

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