I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful than being a victim.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Remember when we were children and life was simple

If you can’t believe then you can’t achieve and belief is intrinsic to every human

In philosophy it is not the attainment of the goal that matters it is the things that are met with by the way.

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

Hearts are united when they ache and break together.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.