We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.