Depression is the inability to construct a future.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.