With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.
Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.
Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will. . . Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish. . . In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence. . . p 259
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.