There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.

It's an awful risky thing to live

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.