No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they are not the same person.
"Can it be so hard
To love yourself without thinking
Someone else holds a lower card?"
“To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves.”
"I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric that pays so much attention to individual self-improvement and so little to the practice of love within the context of community."
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
“Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, ‘In the coming world, they will not ask me: ‘Why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?'”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”