Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

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

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

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

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.