In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

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.

If you find your sacred soul mate, bind the love bond.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

You have to fight the odds in life to be able to reach a greater height.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.