I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.