My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.

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

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

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