Pain that is not transformed is transmitted.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

There has to be a womp on the side of the head that defeats and undercuts this game of performance. It has to fall apart. Now unfortunately, that very often does not happen until what I call the second half of life, when there's been enough death in the family and you start experiencing your own physical deterioration.

If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.