When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

Seeing my children in the morning as they come down from their bedrooms makes my heart come alive. There's just no better moment in my day.

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Consequences are part of one's life. You can't run away from them, but simply face them.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.