Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come f….

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively..

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form require….

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the soc….

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not m….

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and techni….

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find confo….

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become….

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as ….

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship..

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked..

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being..

A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat..

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents..

Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also ….

The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out ….

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all..

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no..

Depression is the inability to construct a future..

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theor….

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what b….