Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.