Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have p… - Rebecca Solnit

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

There’s no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators. (p30)

The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thing as whole, see all the islands and the routes between them. Up close it all dissolves into texture and incoherence and immersion, like a face going out of focus just before a kiss.