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

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

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

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.