This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

You mainly feel the way you think.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.