Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.