You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.