I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.