Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.