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

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.