"And the fact that our society and our culture and our civilization right now is so prone to addictive behavior is because we have lost ecstasy. Addiction is a second class substitute for the search for ecstasy."

"Physical ecstasy comes from sensual and sensuous experience, from sound, touch, sight, taste, smell, sexuality. And if it's the only kind of ecstasy we know, then it leads to addictive behavior. On the other hand it's a very important component of the overall experience of ecstasy. We live in a sensuous universe and God made things beautiful and sensuous, and because God did make a material universe and God did allow us to experience it through our senses, to deny the senses therefore is false and ugly and unchaste."