The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

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.