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.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

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

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.