Pamela

“I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart…I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

“When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life