To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.