It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

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

One does not become fully human painlessly.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

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.