The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.

We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.