When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?

When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker,

she tries to envision spaceeven with her eyes open

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

First and foremost: Feed people.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.