God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Ish #177 "You never know what you don't know, until you finally know it.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

I'm loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Me and my sisters all have such different body types.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.