What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

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

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

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

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.