Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

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.

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.

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

True life Is Life Of emptiness and focused.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

The hands of fate keep time on a heart-shaped clock.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.