We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

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.

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

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

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.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.