It’s okay for people to not understand the choices you make or the work you do. The more difficult it is to explain, the more likely it is that you’re doing something important and innovative.

Easy to define can be synonymous with safe.

Sunday is the day we must avoid efficiency at all costs.

your integrity is the only thing that will sustain you.

not love. not peace. not rage. not fear.

your willingness to have a fucking backbone & die a thousand times in the process of reinforcing it.

Bad things are going to happen.
Your tomatoes will grow a fungus
and your cat will get run over.
Someone will leave the bag with the ice cream
melting in the car and throw
your blue cashmere sweater in the drier.
Your husband will sleep
with a girl your daughter’s age, her breasts spilling
out of her blouse. Or your wife
will remember she’s a lesbian
and leave you for the woman next door. The other cat—
the one you never really liked—will contract a disease
that requires you to pry open its feverish mouth
every four hours. Your parents will die.
No matter how many vitamins you take,
how much Pilates, you’ll lose your keys,
your hair and your memory. If your daughter
doesn’t plug her heart
into every live socket she passes,
you’ll come home to find your son has emptied
the refrigerator, dragged it to the curb,
and called the used appliance store for a pick up—drug money.
There’s a Buddhist story of a woman chased by a tiger.
When she comes to a cliff, she sees a sturdy vine
and climbs half way down. But there’s also a tiger below.
And two mice—one white, one black—scurry out
and begin to gnaw at the vine. At this point
she notices a wild strawberry growing from a crevice.
She looks up, down, at the mice.
Then she eats the strawberry.
So here’s the view, the breeze, the pulse
in your throat. Your wallet will be stolen, you’ll get fat,
slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel
and crack your hip. You’ll be lonely.
Oh taste how sweet and tart
the red juice is, how the tiny seeds
crunch between your teeth.

your self love must remain stronger than your desire to be loved!! Never forget this ever

WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW IT OUT

everything you want is on the other side of fear

you only need to know what’s happening, you don’t need to know why

The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.