Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
It will no doubt be agreed that there are multitudes of these defiant, aggressive types in our culture. But they do not frequent psychoanalysts' offices because our competitive culture (in which, to a...
The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado-masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom - namely, fascism compensated for powerlessn...
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Care is a state in which something does matter it is the source of human tenderness.
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself...
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face...
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to...
Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Since the values of the market were the highest criteria, persons also became valued as commodities which could be bought and sold. A person's worth is then his salable market value, whether it is ski...
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths...
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.