In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Turn your weakness into your richness.

Solitude is a gift you give yourself every day.

Allow Christmas day to blossom in the bosom of your own inner joy & happiness.

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

Only when you have completed a novel, or a story, can you return to the beginning and revise or rewrite.

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited

Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?” “Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.

Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.