If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.