I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

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

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.