The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

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.

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

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.

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.