Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.