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.

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

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

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.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.