It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.

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.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality