The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.