Sublime

We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright—to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.

we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I

The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It’s strength. It’s nerve. And “if your Nerve, deny you—,” as Emily Dickinson wrote, “go above your Nerve.”

There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding

True intimacy isn’t a psychodrama. It isn’t the “highest highs and lowest lows.” It

There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

Make a commitment to personal integrity.