Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

You could be a very trustworthy person. It doesn't matter! If they just met you, they decide to trust you or not in the 1st 3 - 4 seconds...

Chance favors the connected mind.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

I think the key to working out is for people to think of water - just allow the workouts to fill out the cracks in your lives and seep into wherever you can fit it in.

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.