Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

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.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry