There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.

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.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

God is light.

Don't give in to the forces of mediocrity that pull so many people into the ranks of disengagement and resignation. Be fearless Be bold.

Love what you do and your heart will lead the rest of the way.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.