There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

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

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

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

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.