Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.