To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.