Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

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.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.

Whatever happened, I'd met my person, the one my soul connected to.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.