If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.

What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

Most of us are dragged toward wholeness.

If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.