I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry to gladden our heart, who can view a sunrise with a sense of majesty and awe.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

One does not become fully human painlessly.