The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.