"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the 'rat race'—the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."
"We have three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness. When those needs are satisfied, we’re motivated, productive, and happy.”
"One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart–intelligence and goodness–shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature."