The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.