A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe"-a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something seperated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein


"When we start experiencing symptoms of a disorder that is emotional rather than organic in nature, it is important to realize that this is not the beginning of "disease" but the emergence into our consciousness of material that was previously buried in the unconscious parts of our being. When this process is completed, the symptoms associated with the unconscious material are permanently resolved and they tend to disappear. Thus, the emergence of symptoms is not the onset of disease but the beginning of its resolution. Similarly, the intensity of symptoms should not be taken as a measure of the seriousness of the disease so much as an indication of the rate of the healing process. Clinical psychiatrists have known for decades that the patients with the most dramatic symptoms tend to have a much better prognosis than those with few slowly and insidiously developing ones. And yet, the traditional treatment of choice is to suppress symptoms-preventing them from fully surfacing-a practice that, ironically, is known to prolong emotional illness." - Stanizlav Grof, M.D.