Occupation: Author Birth: 1940
Fear of our own depths is the enemy..
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imaginat….
To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time..
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly….
In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals..
In the second half of life, the questions become: 'Who, apart from the roles you play, are you? What does the soul ask of you? Do you have the wherew….
We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others..
The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves..
There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists..
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..
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….
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….
The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes..
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….
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer..
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….
We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others..
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..
Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in se….
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….
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….