Biography
"If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write."
"Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life."
"Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life."
"Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts."
"I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods."
"It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life."
"I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday."
"Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits."
"I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown."
"When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown."
"Just when I think I have learned the way to live life changes."
"When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown."
"To avail yourself of His certain wisdom ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him for that will never be necessary."
"Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues."