Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. Creativity requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experience is one of heightened consciousness: ecstasy.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

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

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

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

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

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