Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.
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.
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.