Don’t waste time by thinking, acting, or praying like a victim. Feeling victimized only adds to your illness, and should it become a full-time state … - Caroline Myss

Muhammad’s followers have not always maintained his reforms or abided by his teachings, just as followers of other great mystical leaders, including Jesus, have not.

in 1972, the revelation that a vice-presidential candidate — George McGovern’s running mate, Thomas Eagleton — had undergone psychotherapy was reason enough to have him removed from the ticket. The notion of working through a trauma therapeutically was still unfamiliar,

Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and “one body,” will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives.