Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.

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.

Those very habits promoting emotional distance keep us from experiencing the love we so desperately long for and the love we are meant to give away.

I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as 'laydees'. It's a bad influence.

Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.