Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

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

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

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

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.