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

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

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.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.