Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves
The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop.
…being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn’t as wonderful as it seemed…being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love.
Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.
Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn’t been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.
There are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential.
At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn’t serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can’t be taught.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.