Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.