 Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. |
| It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. |
| Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. |
| 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 carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens. |
| You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss. |
| Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. |
| 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. |
| We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. |
| I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. |
| The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? |
| It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation. |
| I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. |
| We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. |
