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.

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

We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their lives, resist the summons to show up, or live fugitive lives, jealous, projecting onto others, and then wonder why nothing ever really feels quite right. How many proffer compliance with the other, buying peace at the price of soul, and wind up with neither?

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.