“People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.”

“It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.”

“To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.”

“They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be channeling someone elses thoughts and feelings.”

“In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

“We live individual lives with the consciousness of death and awareness of the past. But the most important part of that sentence is the individual part. Let yourself be humbled by the experiences p...”

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.”

“Writing entails undertaking a spiritual journey, an exploration of the blemished self that is delightfully challenging, painfully arduous, and unfathomably rewarding. Writing allows an admittedly f...”