It Is An Ironic Habit

It May Sound Surprising When I Say, On The Basis Of My Own Clinical Practice As Well As That Of My Psychological And Psychiatric Colleagues, That The Chief Problem Of People In The Middle Decade Of The Twentieth Century Is Emptiness.

Suffering Is Nature's Way Of Indicating A Mistaken Attitude Or Way Of Behavior, And To The Nonegocentric Person Every Moment Of Suffering Is The Opportunity For Growth. People Should Rejoice In Suffering, Strange As It Sounds, For This Is A Sign Of The Availability Of Energy To Transform Their Characters.

Competitive Individualism Militates Against The Experience Of Community, And That Lack Of Community Is A Centrally Important Factor In Contemporaneous Anxiety.

Love Is Generally Confused With Dependence; But In Point Of Fact, You Can Love Only In Proportion To Your Capacity For Independence.

If The Will Remains In Protest, It Stays Dependent On That Which It Is Protesting Against.