Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: May 23, 1936 Death: September 25, 2005
We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength..
There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering..
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom..
Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words..
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably p….
Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom.
With total discipline we can solve all problems..
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures..
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded..
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action..
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa..
I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I….
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is b….
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it..
Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom..
When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the ….
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship..
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principl….
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not t….
A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light..
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the….