It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.