But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.