We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be written!

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.