The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

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.

Indoctrination is dangerous.

All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.