I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.