Depression, the modern malaise, is the result of Internal and External collapsing into one another.

Keep repeating an exercise until you get (into) it; until it transforms you.

The serious meditators I've met lack two vital ingredients which means that their meditation never goes that deep and never gets that real. These two ingredients are a root and spirit.

The true you is found at extremes.

Depression is an allergic reaction of the intellect to its host.

To better express what's inside we need not more words (things) but a more refined punctuation.

Spirit is tested, and thereby exercised, by confronting difficulty. This is why modern parents, who do everything in their power to give their children a comfortable and easy existence, are, in reality, doing them such a disservice.

Depression results from two things: a life built on self rather than faith, and weak, untested, under-exercised spirit.

By giving self centre stage – pride of place – we have forgotten how to die, and for what to be remembered.

all that's left is the procedure

What to do when you cease to be relevant? Just carry on.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is not individuation but God.

To release spirit – effortlessly, joyously – in the spirit of play – one must be single-weighted.

Depression is the natural result of living a lie.

The mind doubts but the heart knows.

That era is gone. Now there’s less danger, less sacrifice, less journey to find something.