How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?
He’d probably kill us both with the same blow. A little part of my mind said, That’s all right. It would be better than living on alone if he killed Ram.
Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again l...
A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself. I
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
Each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone
You aren’t some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you’ve survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your...
Ram wasn’t shy about telling me what pleased him, and he asked me what I liked until I overcame my shyness and answered. Bedtime became at once exciting and joyful, a secret gift I looked forward to a...
Bushes would pull in their sharp thorns and burst into flower when I watered them or loosened the earth around their roots. Squirrel-like creatures, their long white hair smooth as silk-thread, would...
And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they’ll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts...
After that, somehow, I began fixing things in my life. Dr Berger says being close to death will do that, but I'm not sure catalysts of change can be so easily identified.