Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent – people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own.
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.