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.

Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.

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

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

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

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.