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?

You can't heal what you can't feel!

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

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.

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.