We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

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

The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.