The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.