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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Rollo May
Beauty, Peace, Giving
Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

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Giving, World, Patterns
Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.

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Data, Order, Giving
Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

Rollo May
Giving, World, Patterns

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