Get out of your head and experience new things. That’s my number one tip for becoming happier. Let’s just say for the sake of argument...

Dependent people are interested in their own nourishment, but no more; ... they don't desire to grow, nor are they willing to tolerate...

Most of the time, [repressional mechanisms] successfully fulfill their purpose of limiting the content of consciousness. The majority of...

The feeling associated with giving up something loved – or at least something that is a part of ourselves and familiar – is depression....

The perception that we are loving when we fall in love is a false perception. ... The extension of extending one's limits (which...

To be truly productive and successful professionally or creatively ... you need to set up long blocks of time where you can work...

Why am I never content about anything? What if I told you that this attribute you are inquiring about is the very best part of you? There...

The creative process begins when an idea of something to create emerges in one's mind. ... One often becomes overwhelmed with a sense of...

The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life. A life of total honesty [means] a...

I can tell you two things with certainty. The first is that anything worthwhile will make you suffer. The second is that suffering is...

I have attempted to transcend the distinction between desire and action. Desire is not necessarily translated into action. ... The...

Distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence. For the...

There is a defect in the approach to problem-solving more primitive and more destructive than impatiently inadequate attempts to find...

"Become who you are." --Pindar, a Greek poet (522 - 440 BC) from Academy of Ideas: Existential Psychotherapy: Death, Freedom, Isolation,...

It is not that the comes of unself-disciplined children are lacking in parental discipline of a sort. These children are punished...

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and...

Anxiety and other forms of neurotic suffering can teach us about our way of life. [Anxiety signals to us] that the life path we’re on is...

I have been hurt so, so bad. Every time I am hurt I learn something new. I learn, for example, that I can get through this. This, as...

[Personal growth] begins with accepting total responsibility for every aspect of your life and refusing to blame anyone else. While blame...