Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts.

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.