“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“There's no consciousness without senses and memories.”
“There's no love without pain.”
“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”
“It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.”
“There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.”