Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.

Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships