Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!