You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind. "
Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
The back-doore robs the house.
Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life and the people whose lives we touch.
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.