Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

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