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.

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

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

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