I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.