We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

In life, you can either hate yourself or like yourself. If you choose to hate yourself, your life will be miserable and if you choose to like yourself, there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.