The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.

The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.