Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

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.

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love.

Here's to the health of my beloved Critias !