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.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

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.