We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.
The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.
Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.
I come from a place where people get high, the grades get low, and if someone has a secret EVERYONE KNOWS.
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.