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

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

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)

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

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

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.