Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

There is no substitute for hardwork. Always be humble and hungry.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Connect with people who remind you of what you truly are.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.