To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

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.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

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.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.