It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.

It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.