Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.