butterflies were wind energy made visible.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

No matter your Knowledge, Power, Fame or Wealth, Tommorrow is always a Mystery

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

Rare are the people who can capture a human being.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.