To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.