...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.