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.

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.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

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 goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

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