The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

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

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

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is not surprising, since neither scientists nor philosophers can agree about what the consciousness of humans consists of, let alone that of animals.

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

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.