Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

If you're gonna lob something, lob love.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.