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.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.