March 15, 2010
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Rollo May was one of my favorite people to read and talk about in the 60s. Here is one of my favorite quotations by Rollo May.
If you do not express your own original ideas,
if you do not listen to your own being,
you will have betrayed yourself.
It is Sunday evening almost bedtime and I am sitting here trying to think about something to write and amnot coming up with a whole lot.
I was thinking as I typed that quotation that I am basically stuck in the 60s. For me, the 60s was not characterized by doing drugs or promiscuous sex but by the works of Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and the wave of philosophers such as Maslow, May, Carl Rogers, Eric Fromm and many writers of Oriental philosophy. I thrived on personal growth workshops and spiritual study. I loved living in a growth center in Kentucky. I still enjoy doing those things today although they are not nearly as available as they used to be. That is the time of my life that I will always treasure and pray daily that it will return but it never will. So I will stay stuck in the 60s until I die and then I will die with a smile on my face.
Peace brothers and sisters
david
