Everything is so goddamn scary.
Everything is so goddamn scary. Defending
Creativity is a gift to the creator not just a gift to the audience.
But why must everything always have a practical application?
But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated b...
As the saying goes, Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. Why would I want to keep my limitations?
A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I...
We can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris.
I was not one for telling the truth back then. Truth telling was not my first instinct in any situation - especially in stressful situations. It took my many years to become an honest person, and I kn...
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thou...
Double-pumpin' it when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.
Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you ever...
When we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: so...
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those...
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
The old cobbler had believed in something he called the signature of all things-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on...
The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We
The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible.
The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn’t prepare for.
So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.