Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

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.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

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

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's nothing more joyful than having a moment of creative insight and actually creating, or rather manifesting or incarnating your creative insight into actual, physical reality.