“Lets escape outside, Isabelle suggested. Do you have any other talents?I bake and garden.Do you sew, too?Amber nodded. I sew whenever anger incites me to mutilation.Isabelle laughed. One cannot han...”

“I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one, he said.Life can be difficult for everyone, she replied.Misery makes no distinction between prince a...”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”

“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, th...”

“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, th...”

“Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!”

“Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is baked can influence the shape of your bread... Just take it as simple as that!”

“Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you cant use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and change the shape of...”