It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffer….

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line..

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, ….

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all….

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever..

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human..

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with ….

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling t….

The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger an….

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our def….

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers..

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of co….

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspectiv….

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths..

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are..

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory m….

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate….

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in ….

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to….

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite ….

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence..