The infinitely poignant beauty of creation is inseparable from its diabolic destructiveness.

In so doing, the Buddha’s mother acted out an inadequacy that many a mother—like many a lover—is vulnerable to, an inadequacy fed by thoughts of doubt and fear that erode confidence and corrode connection.

“There is no self apart from the world.”

“the unbearable embeddedness of

Clinical studies of such children reveal that a preponderance of them have parents who have related to them in either a helpless and fearful way or a hostile and self-referential one. The children of helpless and fearful parents, in particular, have a very difficult time later in life. Their parents tend to be sweet and fragile, not hostile or

“The core of the dream is not the manifest content but the emotional experience.”

“In a blindfold world I go to beat the Deathless

“Body exposed in the golden

The effort required to ward off the possibility of trauma—the rush to normal that the absolutisms of daily life encourages—is itself traumatic.