What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

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.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.