I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose..

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply in….

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation..

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic..

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul..

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an o….

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There i….

Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the citie….

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face..

The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the….

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area..

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfort….

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefor….

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppres….

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently..

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what sto….

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind..

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've….

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image..

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's ri….