Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

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)

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

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

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.