Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

By seeing differently, we do differently

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.