The Purpose Of Psychotherapy Is To Set

Finding The Center Of Strength Within Ourselves Is In The Long Run The Best Contribution We Can Make To Our Fellow Men. ... One Person With Indigenous Inner Strength Exercises A Great Calming Effect On Panic Among People Around Him. This Is What Our Society Needs - Not New Ideas And Inventions; Important As These Are, And Not Geniuses And Supermen, But Persons Who Can Be, That Is, Persons Who Have A Center Of Strength Within Themselves.

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.

Reason Works Better When Emotions Are Present; The Person Sees Sharper And More Accurately When His Emotions Are Engaged.

A Historical Perspective Can Also Help Free Us From The Ever-present Danger -- Especially At Danger In The Social Sciences -- Of Absolutizing A Theory Or Method Which Is Actually Relative To The Fact That We Live At A Given Moment In Time In The Development Of Our Particular Culture.

Forge In The Smithy Of Your Soul.