Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can't say to humans. ”

Sometimes I get into the mindset that being heterosexual is a brave new world, because you can conceive, and you work out the rest of it once you're pregnant. ”

Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within. ”

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. ”

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us. ”

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer. ”

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way. ”

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books. ”

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear. ”

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything. ”