Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations..

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own….

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him..

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneou….

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rat….

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free..

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about..

The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own ex….

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know..

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is..

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers..

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously..

Forge in the smithy of your soul..

Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive w….

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world..

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various ….

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead..

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the ….

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence..

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previ….