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.

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

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.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.

Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.

I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat. Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

The best products in the world have a point of view. The worst products have none.

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.