And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

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