We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

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

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

One does not become fully human painlessly.