“When we persist in the attainment of our goals & dreams, the difficulty’ will remain, what changes is our abilities to achieve them.”

“We cannot control all that happens to us but we have absolute control over how we respond to the changes in our lives.”

“Freedom in society is gauged by our success in getting what we want and conditioned by status and power, by race, class and gender. In the internal world of the psyche, however, freedom means something very different. It is the ability to opt for our long-term physical and spiritual well-being as opposed to our immediate urges. Absent that ability, any talk of ‘free will’ or ‘choice’ becomes nearly meaningless.”

“The salient stressors in the lives of most human beings today — at least in the industrialized world — are emotional. Just like laboratory animals unable to escape, people find themselves trapped in lifestyles and emotional patterns inimical to their health. The higher the level of economic development, it seems, the more anaesthetized we have become to our emotional realities. We no longer sense what is happening in our bodies and cannot therefore act in self-preserving ways. The physiology of stress eats away at our bodies not because it has outlived its usefulness but because we may no longer have the competence to recognize its signals.”

“Beyond romanticism, true love is not the better half we dream of, that will solve our problems or make us feel complete, if we do not contribute the same to the other person.”

“The misfortune of any people is the lack of faith, in God, and excessive faith, in the president who lies to them in exchange for crumbs.”

“What is happening to us, that if you say something about bodily integrity identity disorder, it calls you facha, classist, homophobic? Where is the limit of freedom and human dignity if we continue to allow everything… What a terrifying future our children will have!”

“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than we already do. We need less guilt and more awareness of how the quality of the parent-child relationship can be used to promote our children’s emotional and cognitive development.”

“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening or the art of social discourse. The point is to honour the urge. To do so is healing for ourselves and for others; not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits.”