The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.
Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.