Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.