Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

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.

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.

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.

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .

She saw how the mind makes forever, in order to store the things it had already lost.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

If you are my friend and say to me, "Please don't write about this," I won't.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.