To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.