Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother? The bother is because we have no other way of speaking about the Absolute. We need forms and images. Without them we have no way of relating to the Divine. Symbol and image create a universal spiritual language. It's the language the soul understands.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

We become what we pay attention to.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.