Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

The courageous conversation is the one you don't want to have.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.