Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.