We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden….

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relation….

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed..

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself..

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the ….

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?.

I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house….

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul..

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Weste….

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or c….

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough..

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering..

The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the….

As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psyc….

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss..

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors..

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable….

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have a….

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul….

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love fo….