To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.