We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.