“Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of golden joinery, in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.”
“No matter what conditions look like around you—keep on believing, keep on persisting—keep on going—keep on growing. Just like wildflowers grow wherever they choose, no matter the conditions—be and be becoming all that you were created to be and become.”
“If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.”
“The masculine and feminine stem from traditional laws. These laws lead to confinement.”
“My prayer for the longest time has been: Spirit lead me where my sensuality is without borders.”
“Be attached to the pursuit of truth, not the truth itself, because truth is not something rigid that you can hold on to, truth is an ever-evolving force. And if your mind gets attached to the truth of today, it won t be able to accept the truth of tomorrow, and if your mind doesn t accept the evolution of truth, then it no longer walks on the path of truth, but on the path of ignorance, which only breeds more prejudice and conflicts.”
“You got to do what you got to do, whether you like it or not. That’s how you grow, moreover that’s how you survive in an unpredictable world.”
“Mark this, my son: all people fall into sin. But sinning, they are not for ever lost Hapless and helpless, who can make amends And has not set their face against repentance. Only a fool is governed by self-will.”
“Occasional criticism is better than the constant admiration.”
“Accept both criticism and compliments because a rainbow needs both sun and rain to reveal itself.”
“Don t overestimate yourself because of compliments and don t underestimate yourself because of criticism.”
“Don t let appreciation get to your head and don t let objections get to your heart.”
“When you’re happy you become sloppy. Happiness doesn’t grow you.”
“A book already dies in your hand when you’ve decided what to read next. A page must make us take a wrong turn, a book a new path, an author a new friend, a chapter a shortage of breath, and a lesson a different life.”
“It isn’t about how many books you read. What counts is the books you re-read.”
“To focus on your legacy when you’re alive, is to detract from the time you could spend building it.”
“The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day.”