“Birth is not one discrete act; it is a process unfolding. The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. To truly live is to be born in every single moment. Death starts when birth stops. Physiologically speaking, our cellular system is in the process of continual birth; psychologically, however, most of us cease to be born at a certain point. Some are completely stillborn; they go on living physiologically when mentally their longing is to return to the womb, to earth, to darkness, death. Many others proceed a little further on the path of life. Yet they cannot cut the umbilical cord completely, as it were; they remain symbiotically attached to mother, father, family, race, religion, state, status, job, money, all kinds of false gods; they never emerge fully as themselves and thus they never become fully born."
"Well-being means, finally, to drop one’s dependence on one's Ego to secure things, to give up greed completely, to cease chasing after the preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one’s self in the act of birthing, becoming, and being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.”
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate (and ultimately celebrate) our total insecurity."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives everything."
