Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.