Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.