“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Never diagnose a (client) until after their therapy is over.

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

I’m unconscious while I’m acting. I live the role and am not myself.