I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

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

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.