Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn’t even know what it means to be brave.
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
Imagine what you’d do if it absolutely didn’t matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It’s the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
People who don’t honor their losses don’t grieve. They may lose all joy in living, but they don’t actively mourn, and this means that they don’t heal.
You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?
When you find yourself stressed, tense, and veering toward anxiety eating, take a time-out for just three breaths. Long, deep breaths.
The only way to get out of this suicidal pattern is to leave the battlefield by going to the Watcher’s place of peace. EXERCISE:.
If nothing’s working for you, if you feel as though you’re pushing forward against the grain, the most productive and proactive thing you can do is nothing. Nature is turning you inward, to gain power through peace, rather than outward to gain power through activity.
I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.