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.

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.

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

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

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