My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

We may define therapy as a search for value.