Quotes from Karen Maezen Miller

To pass the barrier, you have to drop your ambivalence and cynicism. Your clever self-deceptions, excuses, and ulterior motives. You have to be ready, even desperate, before you propel yourself beyond your own fear.

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

Like the road that got you here, the road through parenthood is unmarked. You can't cruise through it. Sometimes decisions are quick and instinctual, but often they're not. Doubts and dilemmas block every straightaway. There's only one directional sign along the way, and it reads, "Why not?

When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?

You're putting all your effort into pulling a rope and then blaming the other side for the blister.

Nostalgia seems like a harmless pastime until it renders you blind.

Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?