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.

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

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

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

There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

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.