Every mistake is a new style.

Destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.

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.

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.

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.

What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180)

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.