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

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.

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.

Some memories made in time will last ages tossed aside.

No one wants to die with vacation time on the books.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.