"If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their o..."
"If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices."
"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
"I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them."
"Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt."
"We can learn something new anytime we believe we can."
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
"I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
"With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends."
"I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches."
"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting."
"The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets."
"Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology."
"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else."
"Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children."
"There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us."
"Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it."
"The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves."
"The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one."
"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."
"When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit."
"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
