We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion

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.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

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.

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.