This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

A good short definition of grace is "one-way love.

I’ve really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can’t even express to you how happy it has made me.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.