“I get to help you too. You need to accept help too. Not just give it. You tell me I need to control everything, but by never letting yourself need anyone, you're controlling everything too.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“I believe that to truly heal you have to treat the whole individual. Yoga is one part of that."
"What's the other part?"
"Understanding yourself as a human being."
"You mean therapy."
"I mean digging into your emotions. Understanding yourself, who you are, how you function. Taking yourself apart like a machine and finding the rusty parts and oiling them.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“Even the enormity of what had happened in this gazebo with India had been no match for his focus, because twenty-four hours did not define you.
An hour with her just redefined you.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“What about the election?"
"What about it? I did my part, now I just have to trust the universe to do the rest." He wiped her tears.
"What if you lose?" she asked.
He tucked her hair behind her ear. "I've already won. Because I have you.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“He hadn't said a word, but his presence was a hum in the air. Exactly like the breathing of a sleeping dragon in a fairy tale.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“As kids we loved to swing by the hanging roots. Yash liked to pretend he was Tarzan."
"Tarzan grew up to wear a suit”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Bring People together and promote a simple change and a better world.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“We are irrational beings, easy to manipulate if you're willing to do whatever it takes. That's exactly how terrorists convince themselves that murder is worthwhile. And the wound it left, it was larger than those lives lost; it was a wound we would all have to live with forever. The purity of my feeling for Carl was gone and I would never get it back.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing