An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

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

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.