If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.