If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

We encounter truth within.

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.