The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period.

If you keep it, " Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

The '70's came and went already

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

No art goes unmediated by other art.