140: Beating Addiction to Find the Path to True Health | Rich Roll

There's also this explosion in meat and dairy analogues. There are so many more delicious, processed dairy and animal product-free products that you can get at the store, and the challenge then becomes to understand that this is about whole foods; it's not about just being vegan. You can have a terrible diet eating just vegan now more so than ever.

We don't need you to be who other people want you to be; we need people to be who they really are. We need everybody's unique authentic voice, and the more that you can probe what that is for yourself and bring expression to that... that is, also, the cure to what ails us as a society.

This idea: 'Oh, I can't live without food X.' Your cravings are malleable. Your cravings are dictated by what you're putting into your body.

We are experiencing a breakdown in our ability to communicate, in general, as a culture, and it's very dispiriting to me to watch that—to see people so polarized and so entrenched in their respective news and information cycles.

Omnivores tend to think of adopting a plant-based diet as something that's very difficult, that's going to be very time-consuming, and that unless you are supplementing with all kinds of supplements, you're going to be deficient ... All I can tell you is that hasn't been my experience.

We all walk around with a very limited scope of our capabilities ... We don't all have a desire to be an ultra-endurance athlete, but we all want to be more than who we are today. And to think more broadly about our capacity, I think, is something that I encourage everybody to do constantly.

When you sit across from somebody and you have an honest, heartfelt conversation for a couple hours... you are connected to that person—you will always have that. And a lot of these people become my friends, they're like my mentors and people that I call for advice ... My life has expanded exponentially as a result of doing this.

Real-world problems require difficult situations, and they mandate that we immerse ourselves in the gray a little bit in order to find the best solutions.