Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche..

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they….

We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor sy….

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Wh….

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul..

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans..

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: ….

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also econo….

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable..

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that i….

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the ….

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world..

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are ….

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to….

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of developm….

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that w….

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way..

Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inh….

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person..

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office..