To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

The fight of faith can only be won by the holy word of God.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

I'm not a very organized person.