The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

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.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Every day brings new choices.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Science could not fill the hole in my soul.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.