Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

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.

The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

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.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.