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"I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast as I could, I did not feel welcome, did not feel the great Shalom. THIS WORLD WAS NEVER A GOOD MATCH FOR ME. But my belief was that there was a loving magical energy in the world - seen in Nature's beauty and awesomeness, my best girl and women friends, art, music."
"[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)"
"I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood."
"I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from."
"If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others."
"I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex."
"It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos."
"If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem."
"I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you."
"I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it."
"For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother."
"The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are."
"All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you."
"I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this."
"This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all."
"I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under."
"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."
"I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure."
"It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us."
"E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later."