When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone there who is taking the time to tell you a story that has great meaning to them. They're taking the time to do this because your life could use some help, but they don't want to come over and just give advice. They want to give it to you in a form that becomes inseparable from your whole self. That's what stories do. Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.