The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds. . . but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.
Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated activity is modulated by sensory input. In this view, the difference between being awake and being asleep is merely that the data coming in from the eyes anchors the perception.
Some people say they will follow their conscience. . many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
Death is better than slavery.