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

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."

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.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

To take away a woman's ability to walk is one thing

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.