We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet..

Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desir….

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars..

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all ….

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastnes….

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere..

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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?.

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….

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

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors..

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..

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 ….

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….

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….

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