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.

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

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.