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

Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

Teaching means to show a person that something is possible.

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.