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The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.

What happened now? he would ask
another man thoroughly exhausted by me.

At any given moment, and that night, going back to

But it was pure, this love that I was feeling.

Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I

If you do say yes to an idea, now it's showtime.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Utopia, a place that has known only peace and harmony and balance

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration.

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

Despair is a tedious business and quickly becomes repetitive.

Nothing is so essential as dignity ... Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

Failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers, not mine.

One can never know the state of another man's heart.

Martyr says: "Life is pain." Trickster says: "Life is interesting.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

A different way is to cooperate fully, humbly, and joyfully with inspiration.

His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now.

Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart ...

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian
a language I find more beautiful than roses

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Library is a beautiful old thing

The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

one of the reasons I was so free that year was because I was such a mess.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

He never dreamed

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

Oh, cold world
I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

Just say what you want to say ... and say it with all your heart.

The four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

If I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. The

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.

What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. - LORD PERCEVAL

White Acre was not, in fact, a very large place.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Is no love which does not become help, taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

I will always be safe from the random hurricanes of outcome as long as I never forget where I rightfully live.

She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything

She reached up and touched his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had a kind face - she could feel that he did.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

insisted, "until the point is inarguable.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Struggle explained everything.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

So sadness is a place?
Sometimes people live there for years

She's a cheerful soul who's having a wonderful time living out the existence that best suits her nature and most brings her to life.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

All the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy.

You do not need anybody's permission to live a creative life.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

Your worth as a hostess consists in displaying the talents of your guests, not crowing about your own.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.