"You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags."
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"There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside."
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"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little."
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"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere."
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"I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped."
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"butterflies were wind energy made visible."
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"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind."
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"Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are."
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"Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware."
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"Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway."
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"Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt."
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"Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together."
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"Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been."
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"Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur."
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"Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare."
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"...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you."
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"The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself."
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"Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects."
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"A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through."
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"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
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