Jude Grindvoll

“You are in charge of your own karma, your own life, your own spiritual path, and your own liberation, just as I am in charge of mine.”
― Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

“Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less, or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not being.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.”
― Lama Surya Das