Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.

Confident is a spirit of faith

- I'm a Neuroscientist.- What's that? What do you study?- I study your brain!

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

I was born a poor black child.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Pay attention to that which sees the mind.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.