Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.