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.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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