Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?

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

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

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.