Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.