No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

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.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

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

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.