Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

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.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.