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

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.