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.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

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.

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.

We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.