Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

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

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

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

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

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

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