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.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

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

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.