I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.

Grace abounds for a greater work.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

All that is not given is lost.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.