Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

But being a brother or a sister (if you are lucky enough) is the role of a lifetime.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

To me, it didn't matter where I played, I just wanted to play well.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.