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

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

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

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.