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Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.
After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.
Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.
You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.
We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.
From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?
I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.
People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.
Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.