Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.