“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.”

“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”

“A child is your heart walking around outside your body”

“From The Twelve EnlightenmentsObserve your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it’s you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, “My life” is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don’t posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life.”

“Having a child is like having your heart walk around outside of your body.”