"...daily practices are really essential. Without that, you can have all the a-ha moments and all the insights and all the clarity in the world in a short period of time; through [medicine] ceremony work, through other kinds of work. But if I don't continue to keep myself centered and balanced, I can very quickly slip out of that, back into some identity, or create a new one to follow, or just get lost again. I describe it as...walking around in a psychically numb state, without ever being ~ in the Buddhist way fully present, to what's going on right now."