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.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

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

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!