If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.