The Greek idea of fate is moira, which means "portion." Fate rules a portion of your life. But there is more to life than just fate. There is also genetics, environment, economics, and so on. So it's not all written in the book before you get here, such that you don't have to do anything. That's fatalism.

Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.