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" You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss. "

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" I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. "

" Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough. "

" We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. "

" We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up? "

" 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. "

" If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. "

" You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. "

" We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. "

" As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. "

" I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder. "

" Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul. "

" 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. "

" The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? "

" 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? "

" The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one. "

" I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. "

" Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. "

" 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. "