Jinx Ashforth

“When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair

“Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.”
― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all contribute to the growing body/mind. And when these basic conditions are absent in childhood, our need for comfort in adulthood can be so profound that it becomes pathological, driving us to seek mothering from anyone who will have us, to use others to fill our emptiness with sex or love, and to risk becoming addicted to a perceived source of comfort.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence