Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.