When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.

I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do.

Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution.

They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.

Where do thoughts come from, Father?”King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.

A man without life purpose is not in any way different from a wondering goat.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

Boredom is a disease, too.