Struggle explained everything.
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and full of fear. I explain that Depression and Lonel...
So sadness is a place?Sometimes people live there for years
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline.
She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing.
She knew this to be true. Maybe not tonight, but some night soon. She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped...
She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.
Recognizing this reality—that the reaction doesn’t belong to you—is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people...
Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.
Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or e...
Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of al...
People will tell you not to waste your youth having too much fun, but they’re wrong. Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it...
Over the course of the summer, he taught the children to eat foods they had never known, to sharpen and use knives, to carve their own spoons, to make knots and play Indian games and- every time they...
Ovau teie!Toa hai a'e tau metua i ta 'oe!E 'ore tau 'somore e mae qe ia 'eo!~ Alma Whittaker
Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night.
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.