To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

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

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).