I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it’s really important.
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery.
Yoga is the effort to experience one’s divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
Marriage is – among other things – a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.
The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don’t kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.
I think I deserve something beautiful.
Maturity brings – among other things – the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world – a treasure, a princess, a prize.
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it’s what you want before you commit.
God dwells within you, as you.
There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
I’m afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.
There’s a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there’s a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I’m willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I’m willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.