“Comme tout le monde, je n ai à mon service que trois moyens d évaluer l existence humaine: l étude de soi, la plus difficile et la plus dangereuse, mais aussi la plus féconde des méthodes; l observation des hommes, qui s arrangent le plus souvent pour nous cacher leurs secrets ou pour nous faire croire qu ils en ont; les livres, avec les erreurs particulières de perspective qui naissent entre leurs lignes.”
“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound but like a will against a wound Give me again enough man to be the child choosing my own annihilations To make of this severed limb a wand to conjure a weapon to shatter dark matter of the dirt daubers nests galaxies of glass Whacking glints bash-dancing on the cellar s fire I am the sound the sun would make if the sun could make a sound and the gasp of rot stabbed from the compost s lumpen living death is me O my life my war in a jar I shake you and shake you and may the best ant win For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things and I will ride this tantrum back to God until my fixed self, my fluorescent self my grief–nibbling, unbewildered, wall–to–wall self withers in me like a salted slug”
“Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.”
“When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.”
“It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.”
“It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.”
“La mejor manera de conocerse no es a través de la contemplación, sino a través de la acción. Directa y simple, diáfana, la acción te pone en contacto con tu interior en el presente y sin necesidad de tanto análisis.”
“Aren t we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”
“I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.”
“Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you re already home.”
“It was almost painful to be different.”
“I m going to stay a little uptight and anxious.”
“I don t like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self spill out of me and i sift through all the disowned parts of who i am... it s an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, i need that release valve to open all the way...”
“Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.”
“I am obviously not a patient person.”
“....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.”
“As it almost always was when I d been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”