Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.