Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing..

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves..

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flare….

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery ha….

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist….

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden….

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face..

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell..

Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative….

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility..

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic..

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of ….

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly.

Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge..

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways o….

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity..

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible..

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth a….

Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensit….

Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined si….

The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are e….