These days I can't tell what I really feel.
Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.
Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.