Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease..

The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don….

There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more ….

Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the i….

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror..

Grief is a gift, something you have to earn..

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind….

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doe….

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing somethin….

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but ag….

Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time t….

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind..

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also ….

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost..

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. E….

If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself..

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary..

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape..

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one..

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning..

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself,….