Why think about death? We can’t do anything about it! I tried to help her understand that, though the fact of death destroys us, the idea of death can save us. In other words, our awareness of death c...
When we wake discouraged in the middle of the night, enemies that we had defeated long ago come back to haunt us.
We should cherish things because they are true, not because they are old.
Visele sunt ca un mister incantator, care implora sa fie inteles[...]Visele sunt doar deseuri intamplatoare, excretii nocturne ale mintii
Uzmimo neko udaljeno mesto, možda vrh planine, i posmatrajmo ga zajedno. Tamo, daleko, još dalje, vidimo čoveka, čoveka inteligentnog i senzitivnog duha. Posmatrajmo ga. Možda se on jednom duboko zagl...
To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not anoth...
There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and only a small footbridge separated us. Just as you were about to step on it, I as...
There is no human deed or thought that lies fully outside the experience of other people.
The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide the fleeting sh...
The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it;...
The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,
The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been in despair.
The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as archaeologist, patiently scraping off the dust of decades to understand (and t...
The human being either asserts autonomy by heroic self-assertion or seeks safety through fusing with a superior force: that is, one either emerges or merges, separates or embeds. One becomes one’s own...
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality, all else being the play of thought. But we could just as well call it our great...
Tanrıyı öldürürseniz, onun tapınağına sığınmaktan da vazgeçmek, orayı terk etmek zorundasınız!
Tabii acı çekeceksin, görmenin bedelidir bu. Tabii için korkuyla dolacak, yaşamak demek tehlike içinde olmak demektir. Büyümek zordur!! diye haykırmıştı. Sen bir inek değilsin, ben de gevişgetirenleri...
Stay a moment, Alfred. I’ve one last question. Let me ask you to imagine something. Close your eyes and imagine leaving me now. Imagine walking away from our talk, and then imagine sitting on the long...
Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? —Thus...
Sizin iyiliğiniz, ödeviniz, sadakatiniz; bunlar sizi hapseden duvarlar. Bu küçük erdemler sizi yok edecekler. Kendi kötülüğünüzü tanımak zorundasınız. Kısmen özgür olunamaz: İç güdüleriniz, özgürlük ö...