We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.