Courage Is Necessary To Make Being And

Human Freedom Involves Our Capacity To Pause Between The Stimulus And Response And, In That Pause, To Choose The One Response Toward Which We Wish To Throw Our Weight. The Capacity To Create Ourselves, Based Upon This Freedom, Is Inseparable From Consciousness Or Self-awareness. (p. 100)

The Ultimate Error Is The Refusal To Look Evil In The Face.

To Believe Fully And At The Same Moment To Have Doubts Is Not At All A Contradiction: It Presupposes A Greater Respect For Truth, An Awareness That Truth Always Goes Beyond Anything That Can Be Said Or Done At Any Given Moment.

The Creative Act Arises Out Of The Struggle Of Human Beings With And Against That Which Limits Them.

Real Freedom Is The Ability To Pause Between Stimulus And Response, And In That Pause, Choose.