The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

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

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

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.

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

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.