Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.