An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.