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

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.