If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed!

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.

People ask me, "How's Teen Wolf?," and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.