In Religion, It Is Not The Sycophants

Love Is Generally Confused With Dependence; But In Point Of Fact, You Can Love Only In Proportion To Your Capacity For Independence.

Human Freedom Involves Our Capacity To Pause, To Choose The One Response Toward Which We Wish To Throw Our Weight.

Vanity And Narcissism — The Compulsive Need To Be Admired And Praised — Undermine One's Courage, For One Then Fights On Someone Else's Conviction Rather Than One's Own.

The Value Of Dreams, Like ... Divinations, Is Not That They Give A Specific Answer, But That They Open Up New Areas Of Psychic Reality, Shake Us Out Of Our Customary Ruts, And Throw Light On A New Segment Of Our Lives. Thus The Sayings Of The Shrine, Like Dreams, Were Not To Be Received Passively; The Recipients Had To "live" Themselves Into The Message.

The Constructive Schizoid Person Stands Against The Spiritual Emptiness Of Encroaching Technology And Does Not Let Himself Be Emptied By It. He Lives And Works With The Machine Without Becoming A Machine. He Finds It Necessary To Remain Detached Enough To Get Meaning From The Experience, But In Doing So, To Protect His Own Inner Life From Impoverishment.