« So I would sit in my mother's chair, close to the one where my father read the newspaper. I wanted him to tell me something, to talk to me, to tell me anything about his work or rockets flying in space. I was trying to find questions that would have interested her. I was the "man," I needed him to recognize me. Sentence lost. Perhaps I did not interest him, or he felt that his duty was being fulfilled. »

« The importance of our attitude towards ourselves cannot be overemoused. In my opinion, this is the main instrument of inner transformation. If we come to a benevolent, attentive and respectful listening, we have won the bet of intimacy with oneself. This listening must have the same intrinsic qualities as that which promotes intimacy with a third party. It is already, in itself, opening and healing of the heart. Learning to truly accept one another is learning to love the universe since we carry all the beauty and ugliness that are contained in it. »

« Change requires the recovery of our emotions and our bodily, organic sensations, those dimensions of ourselves in which we have wrongly locked up the woman. Finally, transformation lies in the re-knowledge of the wisdom of instinct. It's about re-learning to trust the animal in us. It is a question of abandoning our proud illusion of control that oppresses all beings of this universe. »