I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up...
When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back—the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy’s Law.
Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.
There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed...
When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for th...
He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, t...
Having a great narrator is like having a great friend whose company you love, whose mind you love to pick, whose running commentary totally holds your attention, who makes you laugh out loud, whose li...
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony wh...
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape...
Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
See how the fearful chandelier Trembles above you Each time you open your mouth To sing. Sing. —DONALD JUSTICE
But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.