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.

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.

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.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

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