I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the menta...
Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.
Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and mercilessdevaluation of self.
We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.
To know God, you need only to renounce one thing—your sense of division from God. Otherwise, just stay as you were made, within your natural character.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
So you are industrious, but not original?
Simply put, I got pulled through the wormhole of the Absolute, and in that rush I suddenly understood the workings of the universe completely. I left my body, I left the room, I left the planet, I ste...
Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out...
She loved it even more than ever, perhaps, because now, as an adult, she finally had the perspective to appreciate the value of her own joy.
Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing...
Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else...
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.
One can never know the state of another man’s heart.
One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves. I looked at each thought, at each unit of sorrow, and I acknowledged its existence and felt (witho...
Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker
Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws, Plato wrote, when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.But is it such a bad thing to live like...
My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress—what would be the point? He'd already been watching m...