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.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

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