When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.
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.
Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch – there’s not a chance.
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.
Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.
Take me someplace where we can be silent together.
It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you’re working hard. But it’s not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
You have no idea how strong my love is!
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...
A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!