Man Is A Perpetually Wanting Animal.

It Isn't Normal To Know What We Want. It Is A Rare And Difficult Psychological Achievement.

When People Appear To Be Something Other Than Good And Decent, It Is Only Because They Are Reacting To Stress, Pain, Or The Deprivation Of Basic Human Needs Such As Security, Love, And Self-esteem.

Whereas The Average Individuals "often Have Not The Slightest Idea Of What They Are, Of What They Want, Of What Their Own Opinions Are," Self-actualizing Individuals Have "superior Awareness Of Their Own Impulses, Desires, Opinions, And Subjective Reactions In General."

The Peaker Learns Surely And Certainly That Life Can Be Worthwhile, That It Can Be Beautiful And Valuable. There Are Ends In Life, I.e., Experiences Which Are So Precious In Themselves As To Prove That Not Everything Is A Means To Some End Other Than Itself.

[concerning] The Usual Contempt With Which An Orthodox Analytic Group Treats All Outsiders And Strangers ... I Urge You To Think Of The Young Psychoanalysts As Your Colleagues, Collaborators And Partners And Not As Spies, Traitors And Wayward Children. You Can Never Develop A Science That Way, Only An Orthodox Church.