Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just do it.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.