The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

It's an awful risky thing to live

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

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

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