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“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

“Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.”

“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

“No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others.”

“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant…”

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

“You are the universe. expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”

“Love life more than the meaning of it.”

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

“I tried to scream
But my head was underwater
They called me weak
Like I'm not just somebody's daughter”

“Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.”

“Stop trying to heal yourself; fix yourself; even awaken yourself. Stop trying to Fast-Forward the movie of your life Let go of 'letting go'. Healing is not a destination.
Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your longings, your fearful thoughts: they are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be 'healed'. They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly in the loving, healing arms of present awareness.”

“Healing hurts. But what hurts more is the refusal of the call. The true pain of living is the abandonment of self, the mind-body split that makes us fear life. Our ache may be heavy and our souls tired today, but resistance makes it all feel a thousand times worse. Rejection of where we are amplifies suffering. Until we cannot take it anymore. Until there is no way out but in. Diving into the blackness, we discover not death but more abundant life. This is the great paradox of healing, which all great artists and poets and seers have known. We die into our trauma and discover our courage. The fiercest warriors are the ones who have let life break and remake them a thousand times over. The gods of healing are calling through your pain today. Healing hurts, yes, but the hurt itself may eventually heal you.”

“Thoughts and feelings are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be HEALED. They are asking to be HELD, here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness…”