Occupation: Author Birth: 1940
To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant t….
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the rea….
There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists..
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how….
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderf….
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the fam….
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuat….
As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea w….
We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others..
The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused b….
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes..
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer..
Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in se….
How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads an….
Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot ….
We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky….
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposi….
A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature..
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you..
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves..