Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy..

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain..

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that….

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

There are good places to play and bad places..

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us..

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell.

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?.

Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both fr….

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to crea….

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck….

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause othe….

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain..

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us t….

Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to sati….

The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it an….

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm just going to be me..