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

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 dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.