Transition begins in forgiveness.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

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

My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.

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.