Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

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.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

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.

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 which surges within us as well.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Those who lack courage are often the first to discourage.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

If you insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.