Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35).

This is hard for parents to say genuinely..

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them..

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended the….

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. Th….

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change..

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves..

Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason ….

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable..

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day..

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.….

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center..

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line..

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been du….

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the dep….

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking….

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death..

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not..

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community..

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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight..