We are what we think, having become what we thought.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Get a shot of love to prevent the infection called depression.

No great advance has ever been made in science politics or religion without controversy.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

Sales fixes everything.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.