He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of..

All significant battles are fought within self..

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105).

When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trap….

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind t….

I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't like the….

We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world,….

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel..

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowin….

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity..

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving..

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is….

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter..

Often things are as bad as they seem..

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup..

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next..

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows m….

We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely ….

The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I c….

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illu….