If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn’t this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Being real is being true to you.

The love you share with yourself pays immediate and lifelong dividends of peace.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.