Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.

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.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

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.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.