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

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

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

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

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.