Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt.

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.