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People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.