A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

The problem in most situations is not a lack of calling but a fear of responding to the call.

Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Every mistake is a new style.

What good is a path that doesn’t carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.

Without God's grace, we stumble in sin.

I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

I love Seattle. I couldn't be anywhere else.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.