I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

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.

Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)

The root of failure is self-pity. It leads to assumption that our needs are not being met now and probably never will be.

Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.