You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

I wondered about the half-life of regret.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.