Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.