I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

The curiosity of lazy men is gossip

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

We grow small trying to be great.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.