Occupation: Writer Birth: 1954
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want….
The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear..
What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed fro….
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practic….
Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty….
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair,….
... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I ….
We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life..
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence..
It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease othe….
The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as indiv….
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing..
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”.
Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this mom….
Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing..
There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand.
Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears. Sometimes ….
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being ali….
When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us..
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go..