You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.