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

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.

What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first

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