We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

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.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

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

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.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?