Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

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

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

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.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.