Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

what is most personal is most universal

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.