“If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than accepting that our lives are brief and end when we did. But I do think it's… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air,… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“It's terrible to live believing that everything you do is of the utmost importance.” — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing. — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
