The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

Shame is the root of all addictions.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.