There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

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.

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?

Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup’s taste.

This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.

I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.