At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.

When your mind is quiet, when your mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

There's no way to move without making waves.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!

I get mad when people are against pot.

If you look good, we look good.