If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

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

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

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.