Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.