1940-, American Psychologist, Writer
Art
In the arts we contemplate our world and have the chance no longer to be strangers to the deep self that is as opaque to reason as it is transparent to the imagination.
Original Self , 2000
Attachment
Our ultimate goal is to find ways to embrace both attachment and resistance to attachment, and the only way to that reconciliation of opposites is to dig deeply into the nature of each.
Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship , 1994
Attention / Awareness
It may be more important to be awake than to be successful, balanced, or healthy. What does it mean to be awake? Perhaps to be living with a lively imagination, responding honestly and courageously to opportunity and avoiding the temptation to follow mere habit or collective values. It means to be an individual, in every instance manifesting the originality of who we are.
Original Self , 2000
Balance
Balance is a perfectionist ideal, never to be found in actual life. Therefore, it is not a good image to keep in mind. Rather, the soul's complexity is achieved over time, through error and extreme. There may be only rare moments, quickly fading, in which the desired amalgam appears to be within reach. Most of the time we feel the unwelcome tug of one side or the other. That, I believe, is as it should be. We are guided by our emotions, by pain, by the feeling of going wrong. The point is to enter the mysterious complexity of the soul's polytheistic structures, and not to arrive at some static point of perfect balance.
Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship , 1994
Being / Essence / Soul
Soulfulness … Its goal is not to make life problem-free, but to give ordinary life depth and value.
Care of the Soul , 1992
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004