To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.

Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.