We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

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.

Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.

Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

O farmer, strong farmer! You can spend at the fair, But your face you must turn To your crops and your care

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.