“Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.”
“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”
“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”
“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”
“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”