Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.

Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.