Occupation: Psychologist Birth: April 21, 1909 Death: October 22, 1994
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenou….
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism..
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential..
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person conscious….
Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others..
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all othe….
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the f….
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history..
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if ….
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world..
Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way..
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitud….
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness..
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 oppo….
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the prese….
I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate..
By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness..
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteri….
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact..
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspectiv….
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Natur….