In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)