We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
Yes, we worship the idea of the “self-made man” – otherwise we’d go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
It’s better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet...
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?
We vote for Perot. We think he’s a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It’s unbelievable, yet it’s part of that worship of individuality.
Each person enters the world called.
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
I don’t think anything changes until ideas change.
I’m cautious about a lot of words.
It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.
It’s very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It’s called expatriate.
The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.
It’s not enough just to be a mother. It’s not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.