I Wanted Out Of My Pain And

The Experience Of Getting My Kriya, Which Is The Meditation Process That I Do, Was Very Powerful For Me - Though, As I Explain In The Book, I Was Really Suspect Of That Kind Of Thing.

I Got Back Into The Position Of Taking Care Of My Husband, Which Is What I'd Learned That I Couldn't Really Do: You Can Love And Make Things Okay To A Certain Extent, But You Can't Fix. I Didn't Quite Learn That Until The Kayaking Incident. It Became So Clear Then.

Maybe In Any Art You Have To Be Wholly You In The Context Of Whatever You're Doing.

What I Wasn't Prepared For Were The Feelings Of Anxiety That It Stirred In Me. I Wasn't Prepared For The Initial Feeling Of I Don't Want To Have To Do That Again. I Was Scared.

We Live In A Society Running From Pain Through Alcohol, Through Too Much Exercise, Through Sugar, Through Drugs - As Opposed To Realizing That These Things Come Up Because They Are Lessons. It's A Way To Wake You Up.