Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

The soul has no gender.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.